JAIPUR, India - The televised video, shot with a hidden camera, was a bit foggy, but the message was clear.
A pregnant woman, sitting in a doctors office, explained that she was carrying a girl. She already had two girls, she said, and didnt want a third. Thats why she was seeking an abortion.
It was a lie, but the doctor took the bait. For 1,500 rupees, about $33, the doctor agreed to perform the abortion - in violation of a rarely enforced law that prohibits abortions for sex selection.
The video, broadcast this week, highlighted what activists say is a growing problem in India: the aborting of female fetuses by women who want to give birth to boys.
Some 4 million female fetuses were aborted between 1986 and 2001, an average of about 250,000 a year, according to estimates by Mari Bhat, director of the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai.
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