China: ultrasound abuse in sex selection.

PIP: In China, the combination of the one child policy, a longstanding preference for sons, and the ability to detect the sex of a fetus through ultrasound has led to the excess abortion of female fetuses and a skewed sex ration which is as high as 120 boys for every 100 girls in some regions. By 1990, more than 100,000 ultrasound scanners were in use in China where more than 1.7 million female babies are "missing" each year. While doctors are officially banned from telling parents the gender of a fetus, they usually pass on this information when bribed.^ieng