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3. Thus causing part of the problem in women aborting female fetuses in favour of males.

Reply to Norrrm (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 19, 2026, 07:21 PM

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Either aborting or the parents committing femicide when a girl was born. I seem to recall a figure of there being 23 million more males in China than there should be due to this policy.

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