Increased use of pre-natal testing leads to increased number of abortions. Not only are children with Downs syndrome and other abnormalities killed before they can be born, increasingly pregnancies are terminated for the crime of a fetus of the wrong sex. Some societies place many costs on parents of girls and privilege on those who raise sons, and in China and India the future of the nation is at risk since so few women of marriageable age are available for large segments of the population.
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