Toronto, April 25: Indians are known for their preference for male children, and according to a new study, some Indian-origin couples living in Canada — mostly those from Punjab and the Hindi heartland — may be practicing sex-selective abortion and aborting female foetus in Canada out of a preference for boys.
Interestingly, the research published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Canada, found that longer the women lived in Canada, the greater was the gender imbalance in live births.
The practice of sex-selective abortion appeared to be more common among those who already had two daughters.Canada has no legal restrictions on sex-determination tests and sex-selective abortion unless the use of reproductive technology is involved.
The study was done by the same group of researchers who reported last year that more male babies than expected were being born to Indian-born women living in Canada.
In their research published in 2016, the researchers found that women born in India, who already have two daughters, gave birth to 196 baby boys in Ontario for every 100 girls while in most of the world, between 103 and 107 boys are born for every 100 girls and Canadian-born women living in Canada give birth to about 105 boys for every 100 girls.
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