Are there statistics on the gender realities of abortion in America?
DR. EBERSTADT: Not that I’m aware of. There may be some data of some sort kept. Dr. Haney, you may know this better than I, but since the total estimates for the number of terminated pregnancies or abortions in any given year aren’t exactly fixed, there correspondingly are other sorts of data one might want to get. DR. HURLBUT: I mean, it seems apparent if you add up the huge numbers of lost females in your international statistics that that must be driving the abortion rate strongly in certain countries. I’ve read statistics concerning India, certain hospitals where 99 percent of the abortions are female fetuses. DR. EBERSTADT: I’ve read the same sorts of accounts. DR. HURLBUT: The second question I want to ask you: is there a correlation with being noted with crime rates as there are disproportions of males to females? DR. EBERSTADT: Internationally? DR. HURLBUT: I know it’s a hard one to weigh. DR. EBERSTADT: Not that I am aware of. Everyone has — in all societies one always has imp
