Editing Sex-selective abortion (section)

===Controversies===
There are many controversies surrounding sex-selective abortion. Just like the practice of sex-selective abortion has been criticized, the solutions proposed or enacted by governments have also been criticized.<ref name="nwlc.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/prendafactsheet.pdf|title=Race and Sex Selection Abortion Bans Are Harmful to Women | work = National Women's Law Center|access-date=June 10, 2017|archive-date=October 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003225021/https://www.nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/prendafactsheet.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Eklund & Purewal 2017">{{cite journal | vauthors = Eklund L, Purewal N |title=The bio-politics of population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India |journal=Feminism & Psychology |date=February 2017 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=34–55 |doi=10.1177/0959353516682262 |s2cid=152171783 |url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23079/1/Bio-Politics-Population-Control-Sex-Selective-Abortion-China-India.pdf |access-date=March 10, 2020 |archive-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731065129/https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23079/1/Bio-Politics-Population-Control-Sex-Selective-Abortion-China-India.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Eklund & Purewal argued that the response to a patriarchal practice (sex selection) should not be another patriarchal practice (restricting women's reproductive rights), as such a situation creates a cycle: women's social status is lowered, which in turn leads to more sex-selective abortions.<ref name="Eklund & Purewal 2017"/> The association of public discourse on sex-selective abortion with the [[anti-abortion movement]] also complicates the situation.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mohapatra S | title = False Framings: The Co-opting of Sex-Selection by the Anti-Abortion Movement | journal = The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | volume = 43 | issue = 2 | pages = 270–274 | date = August 2015 | pmid = 26242948 | doi = 10.1111/jlme.12242 | hdl-access = free | s2cid = 33140798 | hdl = 1805/25403 }}</ref> Furthermore, access to safe abortion is seen by some as important from a [[public health]] perspective; in India, although the abortion law is relatively liberal, most efforts are put into preventing sex-selective abortion, rather than adequate access to safe abortion,<ref name="Eklund & Purewal 2017"/> as a result nearly 78% of all abortions in India take place outside of health facilities, with such [[unsafe abortions]] representing the third largest cause of maternal death in India.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.indiaspend.com/reduce-stigma-to-make-women-comfortable-accessing-safe-abortions-88950/| title=Reduce Stigma to Make Women Comfortable Accessing Safe Abortions| date=August 7, 2018| access-date=December 25, 2018| archive-date=April 9, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409060749/https://www.indiaspend.com/reduce-stigma-to-make-women-comfortable-accessing-safe-abortions-88950/| url-status=live}}</ref> Another controversy in that of [[population planning]] campaigns such as the [[one child policy]] in China, and efforts from the governments of several Asian countries, including India and South Korea, from the 1970s onward to limit the number of children a family could have, which have intensified the desire to quickly have a son. An article by [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] titled "''How Western family planners helped curb the birth of girls in developing countries, the effects of which are felt today''" claimed that it was such population policies (which included [[forced sterilization]]), which were fully supported, even pushed by the West, that contributed to unbalanced sex ratios.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2018/11/politics-population-control-181127071333333.html | title=The Politics of Population Control &#124; India | work = al Jazeera | access-date=December 25, 2018 | archive-date=December 24, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224212605/https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2018/11/politics-population-control-181127071333333.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Hvistendahl M |title=Where Have All the Girls Gone? |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/27/where-have-all-the-girls-gone/ |website=Foreign Policy |date=June 27, 2011 |access-date=May 22, 2020 |archive-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225220814/https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/27/where-have-all-the-girls-gone/ |url-status=live }}</ref>