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<p>The UK Government does not promote or support abortion on the grounds of gender.
The practice of sex selection is not caused by the availability of abortion services
or technologies but is a consequence of deep rooted discrimination against women,
poverty and cultural preference for sons. Our work on girls' education, women's empowerment,
skills and jobs aims to increase the ‘value’ of girls and women in society and therefore
tackle the pressures and incentives that drive preferences for male children.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The UK has never supported or funded the one child policy and closed
its bilateral aid programme to China in March 2011. In India, our partners are strongly
committed to implementing India’s 1994 National Pre-Conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Techniques Regulation Act, which bans the use of medical technologies for sex selection
purposes.</p>
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