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BY LifeSiteNews.com PARIS, December 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In China, where there is a cultural preference for male children, the one-child policy implemented in 1979 has led to the selective murder of millions of Chinese girls within the womb. This selective infanticide has contributed to a male-female gender gap of almost 17 percent; in some provinces, this gap is as high as 30 percent according to official census data for the year 2000. “[After] 2010, every year there will be a million more adults in China who won’t be able to find a partner. The social consequences of this can be imagined,” said Filippo Festini of the Meyer Paediatric Hospital at the University of Florence. Festini co-authored a Journal of Epidemiology and Community (JECH) study that compared gender ratios in Chinese immigrant families living in Tuscany with their counter-parts in China. Boys born to Chinese families living in Tuscany outnumber girls by a slight margin of 0.65 percent - a normal ratio that is seen among Italian and other western nations. The discrepancy between gender ratios of Chinese at home versus those living abroad is thought to be a result of the expatriates freedom to have larger families. Despite access to abortion-on-demand and ultrasonography to determine the sex of a child, Chinese outside of China will simply “try again” if their first baby is a girl.  Read more about the issue at:  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1508&ncid=751&e=9&u=/afp/20031204/hl_afp/health_china_population http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/chinas-one-child-policy-leading-to-one-sex-population/

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