标题: TW's 2011 Newborn Sex Ratio: 1.07 + US Girl Scouts' Ad Campaign [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-31-2012 14:50 标题: TW's 2011 Newborn Sex Ratio: 1.07 + US Girl Scouts' Ad Campaign 本帖最后由 choi 于 1-31-2012 14:51 编辑
(1) Meg Chang, Taiwan’s Newborn Sex Ratio Falls to Lowest Level in 16 years. Taiwam Today, Jan 30, 2012 http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=185288&ctNode=445
(male-to female newborn ration 1.07 in 2011, a drop from 1.09; lowest since 1996)
My comment:
(a) Taiwanese government attributes the progress to its ban on sex selection of fetus. I doubt it. Incidentally Roe v Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) allows an American adult woman to abort in the first trimester, for any reason--or no reason at all. So an American woman theoretically may abort simply because she does not like the sex of a fetus. To my surpsrise, however, Americnas (men and women, of various races, including Hispanics; I did not ask Asians or Arabs) have no bias against baby girls.
(b) Taiwan needs every baby girl--and baby boy. (We simply need manpower to avert population aging.)