EBSCOhost: SEX SELECTION AND RESTRICTING ABORTION AND SEX DETERMINATION - 0 views
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Sex selection
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fostered by a limiting social structure that disallows women from performing the roles that men perform, and relegates women to a lower status level.
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If abortion is restricted, the burden is placed on women seeking abortions to show that they have a legally acceptable or legitimate reason for a desired abortion, and this seriously limits women's autonomy.
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better to address the practice of sex selection by elevating the status of women and empowering women so that giving birth to a girl is a real and positive option
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But, if a ban on sex selective abortion or a ban on sex determination is indeed instituted, then wider social change promoting women's status in society should be instituted simultaneously.