BBC NEWS | South Asia | India sex selection doctor jailed - 0 views
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Audio and video evidence showed the doctor telling one woman that tests had revealed that she was carrying a "female foetus and it would be taken care of".
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But convictions are rare due to lax and corrupt officials and the slow judicial system.
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Earlier this year researchers in India and Canada said in the Lancet journal that prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girl births a year.
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