There’s a moment in the documentary film ‘It’s a Girl’ that is at once chilling and heart-rending.
A woman smiles nervously as she starts to describe the methods she used to kill her eight new-born baby daughters.
Girls not allowed
Vanessa Baird examines what sex selection is doing to women – and the world.
Choosing boys over girls in China and India has already skewed the global average sex ratio at birth to a biologically impossible level. Photo: Pawan Kumar/Reuters
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