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BY LifeSiteNews.com By Hilary White  BEIJING, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Chinese communist government has dropped a proposal to amend the criminal code to include sex-selective abortion. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress had proposed fines and prison terms up to three years for the offence but it proved too fractious an issue for the Chinese rulers who remain dedicated to their One Child population control policy.  According to the latest available numbers China has a demographic gap between boys and girls being born and the restriction of one child per family is making it wider. Currently the ratio is about 119 to 100.   Sex selective abortion is already banned officially, and Reuters reports that the province of Hebei last month closed 200 abortion facilities for telling mothers the sex of their unborn children. But those pushing for criminalization argued that the current provisions do not work to stop the practice.  The banning of ultrasound for sex-selection has done little to slow the gender gap in other countries where aggressive policies of population control have led to similar problems. In India, a recent study shocked even the mainstream press who reported widely that up to half a million girls are killed by abortion every year.  The United Nations reported in November 2005 that globally the gender gap of boys to girls is becoming more pronounced. The report stated there are now at least 200 million more males than females.   Lead researcher Theodor Winkler said infanticide and gender-specific abortion were the leading causes for the dearth of girls. “We are confronted with the slaughter of Eve…a systematic gendercide of tragic proportions,” Winkler stated in the preface to his recently published book on the subject, “Women in an Insecure World.”  In China, in 2000, reports were starting to filter out that China was seeing an increasingly brisk trade in kidnapped country women for a black “marriage market” for men desperate for wives. According to official census data for the year 2000, in some provinces the gap is as high as 30 percent more men than women.  After “2010, every year there will be a million more adults in China who won’t be able to find a partner,” said Filippo Festini of the Meyer Paediatric Hospital at the University of Florence. “The social consequences of this can be imagined.”  500,000 Girls Aborted Per Year in India new Study Findshttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06010909.html“Gendercide”– Abortion and Infanticide of Girls Leading to Lop-Sided Demographicshttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05112208.html http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/china-will-not-pursue-criminal-penalties-for-sex-selection-abortion/

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