Despite laws banning sex determination tests, female feticide is common in much of India, where families iew boys as being a better asset than girls. 尽管法律禁止性别判定检测，在印度大部分地区女性堕胎仍很普通，那里的家族认为男孩比女孩更有价值。
Methods: The fetal faces of 1028 pregnant women in medium and late pregnancies were imaged by three-dimensional ultrasound and compared with after feticide or birth. 方法应用三维超声对1028例中、晚孕妇的胎儿面部结构行三维超声成像,并与引产后对照。
feticide n. the killing of a fetus; illegal abortion 杀胎；非法堕胎 feticidal adj.
Feticide n. The killing of a fetus; illegal abortion 杀胎;非法堕胎
"In countries where there is a strong preference for sons, these newer, sophisticated technologies can be misused, facilitating female feticide." “在强烈偏爱男婴的国家，这些新的，尖端技术可能被滥用了，进一步助长了女性堕胎。”
