In this article, hospitals are refusing to tell parents the sex of their unborn babies. Hospitals claim that this is due to staff shortage, and that they’re “too busy to check the sex while carrying out pre-natal scans”, but experts believe that this refusal is really aimed to stamp out selective abortion. Selective abortion can be one of the possible reasons hospitals don’t give out gender information to parents because of its popularity. Among many cultures, female children are being selectively aborted because boys are highly valued.
This article posed a question, which I also thought about:
“Is it ethically right to tell a parent the sex of their unborn child, if you think doing so is going to pose a risk to that baby?”
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