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Sex preference of offspring is very strong in Bangladesh associated with socioeconomic and cultural reasons and as a result, parents desperately want to get firstborn boy. Many couples are distressed, if they are unable to produce the first male offspring. Under the circumstances, if they detect the first child is girl at the embryonic stage, in many cases, the parents are interested to terminate the pregnancy through induced abortion in the shade of menstrual regulation (MR). The focus of this paper is to examine to what extent the pregnant women terminate their fetus through induced abortion under the shade of Menstrual Regulation (MR) in avoiding the girl child.
Anjelika Hasan. (2014) Sex Preference Of Offspring, Induced Abortion / Menstrual Regulation (MR) And Legal Issue In Bangladesh, Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 9, Issue 1.
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