The study also found that the rate of ever-married women who at least once used ultrasonography during their pregnancy to know the sex of the foetus is 40 percent in the country. The main reason of using ultrasonography during their pregnancy to know the sex of the foetus is that women wanted to know their child’s sex before delivery. The research explores the existence of son preference and availability and access to sex-selection technologies in Bangladesh along with the extent of induced abortion and/or clandestine abortion in the name of menstrual regulation that are contributing to gender-biased sex selection in Bangladesh, the UNFPA said. UNFPA Bangladesh Deputy Representative Eiko Narita, Dhaka University’s Dean of Social Sciences Prof Sadeka Halim and EU Bangladesh office’s attaché for cooperation coordination and aid effectiveness Evangelina Blanco Gonzalez were also present. “If Bangladesh wants to be a fully developed country and reap its demographic dividend they will need to give some preference to looking deep into gender-biased sex selection.

Source: bd News24 March 29, 2019 19:41 UTC