No More Selective Abortion in China

In an attempt to right an imbalanced gender ratio, and as part of its aggressive single-child policy, the Chinese government will outlaw selective abortions of female fetuses. But is this a naïve stopgap? As this Reuters article points out, fixing the gender gap is far more complex since the cards remain stacked against Chinese girls once they make it out of the womb. --Dominic Sisti

Female Foeticide: An Indian Response to the Sex Selection Debate

Not to rehash a point but this week's news around the entire globe has included one headline story after another out of the World Congress on Bioethics in Sydney, Australia. There have been seven major stories and five radio interviews since I first mentioned the new international visibility of these meetings. I'm betting that much of the debate among bioethics pros is going to move in the direction of IAB. Today's big story is the reaction in Calcutta to the repeated arguments by scholars from other countries that Indian sex selection must be disallowed.