Gendercide to borrow the title of a 1985 book by Mary Anne Warren is often seen as an unintended consequence of China's one-child policy, or as a product of poverty or ignorance.

ECONOMIST: Gendercide

In the under-20 age group, there are 32 million excess males in China today, and this imbalance, partially the product of "gendercide, " has already resulted in increased prostitution, elevated HIV-infection rates and renewed trafficking in females.

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She's concerned about "the extensive practice of abortions carried out solely on the grounds of gender, otherwise referred to as female gendercide, in countries such as China and India leading to an imbalance of millions fewer young women than men".

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Gendercide exists on almost every continent.

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