Excessive flower production as an anti-predator strategy: when is random flower abortion favored?
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DOI: 10.1007/s10144-018-0625-6
Abstract: Many plant species produce excessive flowers but abandon most of them halfway to maturation. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain adaptive significances of this behavior. To understand this phenomenon, I developed a resource allocation… read more here.
Keywords: abortion; flower production; seed; strategy ... See more keywords
Predictors of Maternal Preference for Sex-Selective Pregnancy Termination in a Developing Nation with Restrictive Abortion Laws
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DOI: 10.1007/s10995-020-03062-7
Abstract: The rapid and unexpected increase in the sex ratio at birth in Nigeria between 1996 and 2014 is yet to be fully explained. The contribution of sex-selective abortion has not been explored. A cross-sectional survey… read more here.
Keywords: abortion; preference sex; sex selective; sex ... See more keywords
Culpable Ignorance, Professional Counselling, and Selective Abortion of Intellectual Disability
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DOI: 10.1007/s11673-020-09984-9
Abstract: In this paper I argue that selective abortion for disability often involves inadequate counselling on the part of reproductive medicine professionals who advise prospective parents. I claim that prenatal disability clinicians often fail in intellectual… read more here.
Keywords: intellectual disability; disability; selective abortion; culpable ignorance ... See more keywords
making politics visible: discourses on gender and race in the problematisation of sex-selective abortion
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DOI: 10.1057/s41305-018-0137-4
Abstract: abstractThis paper examines the problematisation of sex-selective abortion (SSA) in UK parliamentary debates on Fiona Bruce’s Abortion (Sex-Selection) Bill 2014–15 and on the subsequent proposed amendment to the Serious Crime Bill 2014–15. On the basis… read more here.
Keywords: problematisation; sex selective; sex; problematisation sex ... See more keywords
Trends in female-selective abortion among Asian diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
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DOI: 10.7554/elife.79853
Abstract: Preference for sons and smaller families and, in the case of China, a one-child policy, have contributed to missing girl births in India and China over the last few decades due to sex-selective abortions. Selective… read more here.
Keywords: abortion; united kingdom; among indian; selective abortion ... See more keywords