Aborsi selektif jenis kelamin adalah praktik dari penentuan sebuah kehamilan yang berdasarkan pada jenis kelamin yang diprediksi dari janin. Aborsi selektif terhadap janin perempuan sangat umum di kawasan-kawasan dimana norma-norma kebudayaan lebih menghargai anak laki-laki ketimbang anak perempuan, khususnya di sebagian Asia Timur dan Asia Selatan (terutama di negara-negara seperti Republik Rakyat Tiongkok, India dan Pakistan), serta di Kaukasus dan Balkan Barat.
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- A conference held in Singapore in December 2005 on female deficit in Asia 2006-02-10 di Wayback Machine.
- Sex Selection at Birth; Statistics Singapore Newsletter, Vol 17 No.3 January 1995 2007-06-25 di Wayback Machine.
- MSNBC – No Girls Please – In parts of Asia, sexism is ingrained and gender selection often means murder
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- Case study: Female Infanticide 2008-04-21 di Wayback Machine. in India and China
- Working paper by Emily Oster linking sex ratio imbalances to hepatitis B infection
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- A collection of essays on sex selection in various Asian countries by Attané and Guilmoto
- Five case studies and a video on sex selection in Asia by UNFPA
- NPR, All Things Considered, India Confronts Gender-Selective Abortion, March 21, 2006
- Book Review: Unnatural Selection – The War Against Girls / WSJ.com
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