He claimed this was necessary to protect all the poor little girls who were being brutally aborted across the country. Want to discuss? Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. Michael Clemens and Satish Chand. Amanda Glassman and Liliana Rojas-Suarez.
What is sex-selective abortion? Registered members get a chance to interact at Forum, Ask Query, Comment etc. It is bound to have a coercive impact on women. Will these changes be enough? Women are often coerced or forced into selectively aborting their daughters by relatives or spouses.
Kale, a Mumbai-born neurologist. Updated March 2, am. The study often faces criticism from Indo-Canadian communities who say the paper lacked context. The only thing that's illegal in Canada is sex selection of embryos during IVF except for medical reasons.
A June investigation by the CBC into whether unregulated "entertainment" ultrasound clinics —"spa-like" clinics performing vanity ultrasounds that do not examine the medical health of a fetus and instead are aggressively marketed as a way for mothers to "bond" with their laws against sex selective abortion in india in Calgary pre-birth—were violating Canadian laws and providing gender determinations before 20 laws against sex selective abortion in india in Calgary of a pregnancy.
While few studies have been done to assess how frequent the practice may be among immigrant communities in Canada, the editorial points to research that suggests sex-selection is more common among immigrants from India, China, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines who already have at least one daughter.
Kale said the Canadian medical establishment needs to go further, and make express rulings that would ban fetal sex disclosure before seven months, when it is too late for an abortion.
Last year, Warawa proposed M "That the House condemn discrimination against females occuring through sex-selective pregnancy termination. Ian Mitchell and Scott Morris. If you look specifically at Vancouver, the gender ratio is still 1. Share this item on Facebook facebook Share this item via WhatsApp whatsapp Share this item on Twitter twitter Send this page to someone via email email Share this item on Pinterest pinterest Share this item on LinkedIn linkedin Share this item on Reddit reddit Copy article link Copy link.