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Eklund, L., & Purewal, N. (2017). The bio-politics of population control and sex-selective
abortion in China and India. Feminism & Psychology, 27(1), 34-55. Retrieved from
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353516682262
The article presents how China and India as the well-known countries having large
population and particularly with skewed sex ratios with male favoritism. The two
countries have formed various policies to curb instances of couples deselecting
daughters including sex selective abortion criminalization. The article attempts to
explore the role of such policies in the bio-politics of population control. This is
indispensable source with adequate information on the need for population control by
countries like China and India using the abortion laws.
Latt, S. M., Milner, A., & Kavanagh, A. (2019). Abortion laws reform may reduce maternal
mortality: an ecological study in 162 countries. BMC women's health, 19(1), 1.
Retrieved from https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-
018-0705-y
The three researches claim that relaxation in abortion-related laws is necessary in
ensuring that there is reduced female maternal mortality rate. They reveal that
countries that legalized abortion have overtime recorded a drop in related pregnancy
mortality rate. this is an essential source for evidence on the success of the relaxation
abortion laws.
Francome, C. (2016). Unsafe Abortion and Women's Health: Change and Liberalization.
Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315548968

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