Selective abortion blamed for India's missing girls

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........"Female infanticide of the past is refined and honed to a fine skill in this modern guise," Sheth added........

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Selective abortion blamed for India's missing girls

Sun Jan 8, 7:47 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - About 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades, according to research published on Monday.

A team of scientists who analyzed female fertility figures from a national survey of 6 million people in India found that there were about half a million fewer girls born in the country in 1997 than expected.

Extrapolated over 20 years, the figure would be 10 million, the researchers said in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal.