AP: China Seeks to Combat Abortion Imbalance

From AP, via ABC News:

China’s top lawmakers want to make it a crime for doctors to detect an unborn baby’s sex for non-medical reasons, in a bid to combat the abortion of female fetuses, government-run newspapers reported Sunday.

It is already illegal in China to use an ultrasound or other means determine if a fetus is a boy or a girl, but doctors who do so only face administrative penalties and not criminal charges, the China Youth Daily reported.

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