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China Claims Sex-Selective Abortion Will be Punished
By Hilary White
BEIJING, August 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Associated Press reports that an official with the Chinese communist government’s one child family planning department said that it will still punish selective abortion of girls, even though the legislature decided in June not to make sex-selective abortion a crime.
The Associated Press reports that Zhang Weiqing, an official with the State Commission for Population and Family Planning, said the government would continue to prosecute institutions and individuals involved in illegal sex-selective abortions.
The Chinese government has at least officially acknowledged sex-selection as one of the problems caused by their "family planning" system, but declined to make it a crime to kill unborn baby girls, despite a rapidly growing demographic disaster.
According to the latest available statistics, China reports that about 119 boys are born for every 100 girls, compared to the global average ratio of about 105 boys to 100 girls.
The official Xinhua News Agency that the government has prosecuted 3,000 cases of fetus gender identification and selective abortions in the last two years.
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