tion abortion in the ‘‘Communist Government 
of China’’. Likewise, at the 2007 United Na-
tion’s Annual Meeting of the Commission on 
the Status of Women, 51st Session, the United 
States’ delegation spearheaded a resolution call-
ing on countries to eliminate sex-selective abor-
tion, a policy directly contradictory to the per-
missiveness of current United States’ law, 
which places no restriction on the practice of 
sex-selection abortion. The 2005 Annual Report 
of the United Nations Population Fund reflects 
agreement with the United States’ position, 
stating that aborting a ‘‘girl child’’ is ‘‘gender- 
based violence’’, ‘‘one of the most pervasive 
human rights abuses’’, and ‘‘the most extreme 
form of violence against women’’. The United 
Nations Commission on the Status of Women 
has urged governments of all nations ‘‘to take 
necessary measures to prevent . . . prenatal 
sex selection’’. 
(I) A 1990 report by Harvard University 
economist Amartya Sen, estimated that more 
than 100 million women were ‘‘demographically 
missing’’ from the world as early as 1990 due 
to sexist practices, including sex-selection abor-
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tion. Many experts believe sex-selection abortion 
is the primary cause. As of 2008, estimates of 
women missing from the world range in the 
hundreds of millions. 
(J) Countries with longstanding experience 
with sex-selection abortion—such as the Repub-
lic of India, the United Kingdom, and the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China—have enacted complete 
bans on sex-selection abortion, and have stead-
ily continued to strengthen prohibitions and 
penalties. The United States, by contrast, has 
no law in place to restrict sex-selection abor-
tion, establishing the United States as affording 
less protection from sex-based feticide than the 
Republic of India or the People’s Republic of 
China, whose recent practices of sex-selection 
abortion were vehemently and repeatedly con-
demned by United States congressional resolu-
tions and by the United States’ Ambassador to 
the Commission on the Status of Women. Pub-
lic statements from within the medical commu-
nity reveal that citizens of other countries come 
to the United States for sex-selection proce-
dures that would be criminal in their country of 
origin. Because the United States permits abor-
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tion on the basis of sex, the United States may 
effectively function as a ‘‘safe haven’’ for those 
who seek to have American physicians do what 
would otherwise be criminal in their home coun-
tries—a sex-selection abortion, most likely late- 
term. 
(K) The American medical community op-
poses sex-selection abortion. The American Col-
lege of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, com-
monly known as ‘‘ACOG’’, stated in its Feb-
ruary 2007 Ethics Committee Opinion, Number 
360, that sex-selection is inappropriate for fam-
ily planning purposes because sex-selection ‘‘ul-
timately supports sexist practices’’. Likewise, 
the American Society for Reproductive Medicine 
has opined that sex-selection for family plan-
ning purposes is ethically problematic, inappro-
priate, and should be discouraged. 
(L) Sex-selection abortion results in an un-
natural sex ratio imbalance. An unnatural sex 
ratio imbalance is undesirable, due to the in-
ability of the numerically predominant sex to 
find mates. Experts worldwide document that a 
significant sex ratio imbalance in which males 
numerically predominate can be a cause of in-
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creased violence and militancy within a society. 
Likewise, an unnatural sex ratio imbalance 
gives rise to the commoditization of humans in 
the form of human trafficking, and a con-
sequent increase in kidnapping and other vio-
lent crime. 
(M) Sex-selection abortions have the effect 
of diminishing the representation of women in 
the American population, and therefore, the 
American electorate. 
(N) Sex-selection abortion reinforces sex 
discrimination and has no place in a civilized 
society. 
(2) RACIAL DISCRIMINATION FINDINGS.— 
(A) Minorities are a vital part of American 
society and culture and possess the same funda-
mental human rights and civil rights as the ma-
jority. 
(B) United Sates law prohibits the dis-
similar treatment of persons of different races 
who are similarly situated. United States law 
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in 
various contexts, including the provision of em-
ployment, education, housing, health insurance 
coverage, and athletics. 
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(C) A ‘‘race-selection abortion’’ is an abor-
tion performed for purposes of eliminating an 
unborn child because the child or a parent of 
the child is of an undesired race. Race-selection 
abortion is barbaric, and described by civil 
rights advocates as an act of race-based vio-
lence, predicated on race discrimination. By 
definition, race-selection abortions do not impli-
cate the health of mother of the unborn, but in-
stead are elective procedures motivated by race 
bias. 
(D) No State has enacted law to proscribe 
the performance of race-selection abortions. 
(E) Race-selection abortions have the ef-
fect of diminishing the number of minorities in 
the American population and therefore, the 
American electorate. 
(F) Race-selection abortion reinforces ra-
cial discrimination and has no place in a civ-
ilized society. 
(3) GENERAL FINDING.— 
(A) The history of the United States in-
cludes examples of both sex discrimination and 
race discrimination. The people of the United 
States ultimately responded in the strongest 
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