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Sex-Selective Abortions Rise in India

For centuries, sons have been preferred over daughters in India. But now the desire for a boy coupled with medical technology has led to a rise in illegal sex-selective abortions. India's 2011 census shows that the gender ratio of children younger than 6 has declined to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys as compared to 927 in...

Opinion Roundup: Abortion Clinic 'House of Horrors' Sparks Debate

In a gruesomely detailed case, abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was charged Wednesday with murdering a woman and seven fully-delivered babies in his West Philadelphia clinic. Gosnell "induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting...

Town in Shock After French Mom Admits Baby Killings

(July 29) -- A 47-year-old woman has admitted to fatally smothering eight of her newborns in what may be France's most serious case of infanticide, authorities said, and her shocked co-workers and neighbors say they never knew she was pregnant -- much less potentially homicidal. Dominique Cottrez was charged with...

Background on infanticide

Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants. Neonaticide, killing within 24 hours of a child's birth, is most commonly done by the mother whereas infanticide of a child more than one day old is slightly more likely to be committed by the father.

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