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Reading Comprehension - Sentence Gap Fill 4: Indian Doctor Jailed For Determining Gender of Unborn Child

In India, a doctor and his assistant have been jailed for two years for using ultrasound technology to determine the gender of unborn babies. This practice has led to the abortion of millions of female fetuses in India where boys are traditionally preferred. While India banned determining fetal gender through ultrasound in 1994, the practice continues illegally and has led to a highly skewed sex ratio in the country. This landmark conviction may help deter other doctors from conducting illegal gender determination tests.

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Reading Comprehension - Sentence Gap Fill 4: Indian Doctor Jailed For Determining Gender of Unborn Child

In India, a doctor and his assistant have been jailed for two years for using ultrasound technology to determine the gender of unborn babies. This practice has led to the abortion of millions of female fetuses in India where boys are traditionally preferred. While India banned determining fetal gender through ultrasound in 1994, the practice continues illegally and has led to a highly skewed sex ratio in the country. This landmark conviction may help deter other doctors from conducting illegal gender determination tests.

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Reading Comprehension - Sentence Gap Fill 4

In the following text, six sentences or parts of sentences have been removed. Below the

extract you will find the six removed sentences PLUS one sentence which doesn't fit. Choose

from the sentences (A-G) the one which fits each gap (1-6). Remember, there is one extra

sentence you do not need to use.

Indian Doctor Jailed for Determining Gender of Unborn Child

In India, medical professionals have been sentenced to prison for the first time for using

ultrasound technology to determine the sex of an unborn baby. The practice has facilitated

the abortion of millions of female fetuses in a country where boys have traditionally been

preferred over girls.

A doctor and his assistant in the northern state of Haryana have been jailed for two years,

after local authorities sent decoy patients to the doctor's clinic to determine the gender of

the women's fetuses.

The prosecution said the doctor used ultrasound to determine the fetuses' sex. (1)

____________________

India banned ultrasound tests done to determine the sex of a fetus in 1994, after it was

realized how parents across the country were using the technology. (2)

____________________

Indian experts say at least six-million female fetuses have been eliminated during the past

20 years due to sex-selective abortions. (3) ____________________

A consultant with the Center for Women's Development Studies, Sabu George, says

authorities must do more to clamp down on doctors for whom such tests and abortions have

become a multi-million dollar business.


"It is not difficult to stop the crime, everybody knows which doctors are doing it in any town

or any village. (4) ____________________ "But somehow the civil society organizations do

not give it adequate priority in terms of stopping the crime, they are not seeing it as

genocide."

Social activists campaigning to stop the practice hope the recent conviction and jailing will

act as a deterrent to thousands of doctors who conduct such tests, but have never faced

prison due to a lax enforcement system.

There has only been one previous prosecution under the law banning ultrasound for sex

determination. (5) ____________________

The practice of aborting females has led to a highly skewed sex ratio in the country. The

2001 census found that the number of women for every 1,000 men had dipped to 933, from

972 a century ago. (6) ____________________

Social activists say the practice cuts across urban and rural areas as well as social classes.

They say gender selection is part of a larger problem in a society where a girl child is

discriminated against, and is considered a liability because parents must pay a dowry when

she gets married.

This article reprinted from  VOA.

Choose from the following sentences to fill the spaces in the text. There is one extra.

A. A recent study by the British medical journal The Lancet put the number as high as 10

million.

B. It led to a fine for improper maintenance of records.


C. In some parts of the affluent north, including the Indian capital, the ratio of women to

men is even lower.

D. When one was found to be a female, he promised the mother he would "take care" of it.

E. The U.N intervened at this point and the Indian government was informed that action

must be taken.

F. But the practice continues.

G. So this is public knowledge where it is happening," George said.

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