Republicans plan new law for abortions based on sex of foetus

The plan is the latest in a series of Republican attempts to make it more
difficult for women to terminate pregnancies. Mitt Romney, the party’s
presidential nominee, has said that Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme
Court decision legalising abortion, should be reversed.

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has already begun targeting him
aggressively on the issue.

Opposition to sex-selection abortion was sharpened this week by the release of
video footage, filmed undercover by conservative activists, of a woman being
casually offered one by a Planned Parenthood clinic. The organisation said
it had fired the employee involved and retrained staff.

Mr Franks stated that sex-selection abortion was increasingly common “especially
but not exclusively in the Asian immigrant community,” prompting
Democratic claims that women from ethnic minorities would be unfairly
targeted by the proposal.

“The bill would require doctors to police their patients,” said John
Conyers, a Michigan Democrat. “It limits a woman’s right to choose and
jeopardises her access to safe, legal medical care.” It is likely that
the Act will struggle to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Citing an unspecified study, Mr Franks said that male births “clearly
exceeded biological variation” among “Chinese, Asian Indians and
Koreans”.

Abortions are generally more prevalent among ethnic minorities in the US.

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