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Indo-Canadian couples choosing sons over daughters: study

Apr 13, 2016

"I don't believe these abortions happen because a woman wants it to happen. It is not her choice at all. It's usually coerced through pressures, through traditions, through the beliefs that somehow that male child is going to fulfill the obligations of that family, and a female can not do that."

Kripa Sekhar, South Asian Women's Centre

The Current

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