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‘An abortion can be selective.’

[⟨det abortion.n⟩ selective.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It starts off discussing’ eve – teasing ’, I. e. harrassment, but then delves into the whole range of issues from dowry to sex – selective abortion: For India’s middle-class urban women, the past decade has brought unprecedented opportunities to advance in a social order long dominated by men.
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In Wikipedia:

This has been attributed to a number of factors, including the illegal practice of sex – selective abortion and widespread under – reporting of female births.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They were not allowed to marry, and forced sterilisation of the disabled was common practice, as was selective abortion.” (Link)
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In the British National Corpus:

Birth prevalences without prevention are real figures observed in ad hoc epidemiological surveys or in the database of the Hungarian congenital abnormality registry, as are birth prevalences after prevention involving selective abortion or neonatal screening.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994, recognized sex – selective abortion and infanticide, along with discrimination against female children, as a social crime.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A growing concern then rests with developing or developed nations where the preference for male children is more ingrained in society, thusly encouraging selective abortion or infanticide.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Selective abortion doesn’t.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Cheerleaders for ideas like’ ’ performance enhancing drugs in sport, genetic screening, early abortion, late – term abortion, sex – selective abortion, embryonic stem cell research, hybrid embryos, saviour siblings, therapeutic cloning, reproductive cloning, genetic engineering of children for higher IQs, eugenics, and organ markets’ ’ simply should be run out of town and pelted with rotten vegetables along the way.
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In Wikipedia:

Sex – selective abortion and female infanticide.
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In Wikipedia:

Selective abortion and female infanticide.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But selective abortion lacks the moral harms that made earlier American eugenics attempts so reprehensible.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Isha is aware of the practice of selective abortion, yet never believes it will touch her life.
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In the British National Corpus:

They refer to secondary prevention as early detection and medical treatment or selective abortion.
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In Wikipedia:

In human societies, however, sex ratios at birth or among infants may be considerably skewed by sex – selective abortion and infanticide.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Until reading this book, I had no idea of the magnitude of selective abortion in India.
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In Wikipedia:

The government is particularly concerned with the large imbalance in the sex ratio at birth, apparently the result of a combination of traditional preference for boys and family planning pressure, which led to the ban of using ultrasound devices for the purpose of preventing sex – selective abortion.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

A page turner full of love, murder, and the sobering issue of gender selective abortion in India.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This is logically flawed: It cannot be anti-women to object to the selective abortion of female babies, for instance.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The pro – life brigade however will leave no stone unturned in their quest for victory – from bombing abortion clinics, to murdering doctors, to terming selective abortion as eugenics and equating it with Nazism, to getting anti-liberty laws passed, to intimidating bloggers.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.