Long-term study shows gender-based abortions lead to skewed gender population numbers

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 07:50 in Biology & Nature

A team of researchers from Singapore, the United Nations Population Division, and the U.S. has found that abortions based on gender lead to larger-than-thought distortions in gender ratios. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their five-year study of population and gender ratios and what they found.

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