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Gender testing kits freely available in the United States

Bangalore: Gender testing kits that can be used at home are freely available in the United States. Medical agencies and doctors offering sex-selective abortions are advertised in the mainstream press and Punjabi newspapers in the US, specifically addressing Indian immigrants. Despite use of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for sex selection being illegal in India, its use by immigrant Indian families is widespread in the US, where it is legal, said Sunita Puri, Clinical Research Fellow of Pathways to Careers in Clinical and Translational Research and a third-year medical student in the University of California, San Francisco.

Ms. Puri has conducted a study which examines the social and cultural reasons underlying sex selection in the Indian immigrant community in the U.S., its impact on women and the attitudes of American physicians offering sex selection to South Asian immigrants.

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