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China ban on sex-selection abortion: official

Seeded on Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:52 PM EDT
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A regulation is expected to be made to ban sex-selection abortion in China against the increasingly larger gender imbalance, according to the State Council.

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Social engineering is a wonderful thing to behold.
Currently, China's male population outnumbers that of females by 37 million, the most uneven in the world.
Statistics from the Information Office of the Chinese State Council show the sex ratio for newborns is 119 boys to 100 girls.

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