TW's 2011 Newborn Sex Ratio: 1.07 + US Girl Scouts' Ad Campaign

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(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.)

(2) Andrew Adam Newman, At the Century Mark, It’s Not Just About the Cookies. New York Times, Jan 31, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/3 ... e-than-cookies.html