Sex Selection anyone?

In the past, there was not much you could do about it. Pre-natal sex selectionwas impossible. Older Chinese (and other) societies would practice a repugnant form of sex selection by killing unwanted babies by exposing them or otherwise, and this was the fate of many baby girls. Fortunately, infanticide is illegal, so this form of Chinese sex selection is no longer practised.

With modern ultrasound scans, however, pre-natal sex selection is possible. And as abortion is available pretty much on demand in Chinese society as a result of the “one child” policy, you can guess what the results are.