Suresh,
> It is - if and only if that was the only reason such tests were deployed.
There are plenty of decent (or at least non-evil) reasons
to want to find out the gender of the baby ahead of time.
I don't think you've addressed the black market issue.
Criminalization is a really bad substitute for the hard work
of transforming what people think and want -- and often it's
just counterproductive (as it has been in the USA's so-called
"war on drugs").
I certainly don't mean to minimize the problems that countries
like China, Korea, Taiwan, and India face; I'm just saying that
addressing these issues from a cultural direction is a lot more
likely to produce a good long-term result.
-Jon
e And even then there's nothing that stops the doctor from doing the
> determination and then advising the mother to, say, abort, or prepare
> herself for a child with special needs.
>
> ps: Just in time to restart this thread, we have an indian minister with
> another reason for the gender gap not to widen like this ..
>
> http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/04/13/indian-minister-says-declining-female-birth-rate-means-well-all-become-gay/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29
>
> srs
>
> On Thursday 14 April 2011 08:43 PM, Jon Cox wrote:
> > Early detection of gender-linked chromosomal disorders
> > is a sound medical reason for prenatal gender determination.
> >
> > I really don't think you'd want to criminalize that,
> > because it would:
>
