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Sex-Selective Abortion Bans: Anti-Immigration Or Anti-Abortion?, Sital Kalantry
Sex-Selective Abortion Bans: Anti-Immigration Or Anti-Abortion?, Sital Kalantry
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In the last five years, over half of the state legislatures in the United States have considered banning sex-selective abortion because of the (false) belief that Asian Americans are disproportionately giving birth to more boys than are European Americans. Supported by the data that applies to a very small subset of Asian Americans, proponents of the law stereotype Asian Americans by assuming that their birthing patterns are the same as those of people in India and China.
Because of the undue focus on Asian immigrants in the discussions of sex selection bans, the real conversation that should occur in the …