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Indian gynecologists conducting ultrasound examinations on pregnant patients at a government-run hospital in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala. CreditJayanta Dey/Reuters

How to Fix India’s Sex-Selection Problem

by Sital Kalantry | Jul 31, 2017 | Health

There are too many men in India today. Over the course of several decades, 300,000 to 700,000 female fetuses were selectively aborted in India each year. Today there are about 50 million more men than women in the country. While selective abortion of female fetuses...

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Current Economic Conditions, Birth Control

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Apr 22, 2017 | Opinion

During past discussions on development in the region, calls for family planning – precisely controlling birth – were only faced with aggressive answers or hostile responses, considering the subject as suspicious foreign projects. Thus, houses and cities...

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An Iranian boy stands among Shi’ite Muslim worshippers attending the weekly Friday prayer on May 16, 2014, at the university of the Iranian capital, Tehran. (AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE)

Bigger is Better

by Arash Aramesh | May 24, 2014 | Majalla Blogs

Not too long ago, Iranian state television aired a documentary on what it said was an “exemplary family” and a “special home.” The family’s home was simple, as one would expect in a rural village in northwestern Iran. The family’s income, like that of most other...