Folks, Here is an interesting article from The Toronto Star, of 21 April, 2012. Mervyn212012 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Toronto Star investigation this week hit a nerve. It showed six hospitals across the GTA don’t allow ultrasound sonographers to disclose a fetus’s gender — due to concerns over female feticide, thought to be a problem among South Asian and East Indian ethnic communities
The issue has pitted feminist, multicultural and bioethical concerns against one another. “Note the paradox that abortion for no reason — because it’s untimely, unplanned, not wanted — that is acceptable,” said Bernard Dickens, a professor emeritus of health policy at the University of Toronto, in an interview with the Star last week. “So then we’ve got the paradox that an abortion for no reason (is OK), but abortion for what seems to be a gendered or sex-based reason is not . . . Making policies to deny that population what is important to them — in itself, it is a difficult ethical and legal question. Is that racial profiling, is that a form of racial discrimination? ____________________ Here is the entire article: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1165378--feticide-debate-plunges-us-into-murky-ethical-waters
