A digest of useful articles on the sex selection bill

Criminalising sex-selective abortions would be a terrible idea for women

Ann Furedi, Independent

 

Even If ‘Gendercide’ Is a Major Issue, Is Criminalising Women and Doctors Really the Answer?

Charlotte England, Vice

 

A vote to criminalise gender-selective abortion will be a disaster for women

Rebecca Schiller, Comment is Free, The Guardian

 

MPs must oppose amendment to the Serious Crime Bill that would criminalise women and doctors

The Observer view on the sex-selection debate

 

Why MPs should vote against the sex selective abortion amendment

Sunny Hundal

 

Why feminists should oppose the ban on sex selective abortion

Sarah Ditum, New Statesman

 

Stop Gendercide: a dangerous campaign

Ellie Lee, Reader in Social Policy, University of Kent

 

Criminalising women to protect them? The abortion amendment is seriously flawed

Sally Sheldon, Professor of Law, University of Kent

 

Sex selective abortion and honour based violence

Shaheen Hashmat

 

MPs must not sleep walk towards abortion restrictions

Lisa Hallgarten, Chair of Voice for Choice, New Statesman

 

Letter to the Daily Telegraph signed by 47 academics

 

Why I oppose a ban on sex-selection abortion

Pam Lowe, Senior Lecturer, Aston University

 

Defending Women

Ann Henderson, Scottish TUC, The Scotsman

 

Son preference and abortion in Asia

 

Saving the Girl Child or Destroying Women’s Rights?

With comment from Suchitra Dalvie, gynaecologist at the Asia Safe Abortion Partnership

 

Maintaining access to safe abortion and reducing sex ratio imbalances in Asia

Bela Ganatra, Reproductive Health Matters Journal

 

A round-table discussion on sex selection: several articles

Multiple authors, Reproductive Health Matters Journal

 

Resisting sex selective abortion bans – USA

Report debunks conservative case for sex selective abortion bans

 

San Franciso resolution on sex selective abortion bans: Asian-American women can reclaim the conversation

 

Older pieces from the UK

Why criminalising gender abortions is sinister and wrong

Reni Eddo-Lodge, Daily Telegraph

 

My body, my choice: from now on abortion rights must be fought from first principles

Sarah Ditum, New Statesman

 

Is sex-selection among British Asian families a big issue? We should be wary of the Independent’s campaign

Sunny Hundal, Liberal Conspiracy