New approach to combat sex selective abortions

As it is known, RA Ministry of Healthcare has developed a draft law for preventing selective abortions and restoring normal ratio of newborn boys and girls, according to which it was suggested to prohibit providing information about gender until fetus becomes 30 weeks. This proposal caused a wave of discrepancies. Many people considered that in case of adoption of the law risks of corruption will increase and abortions will disappear. Some people thought that the right of information was violated but the authors of the draft law explained to them that a child’s right to life is more important and superior than   that of information (in this case information about the gender of fetus).

 

 

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