With no medical qualification, she probably used ultrasound devices when she was a trainee nurse several years ago. China's sex ratio at birth is skewed toward male babies.
Ultrasound technology was first used for identifying the gender of fetuses in the 1980s. Though it is illegal in China for medical institutions or individuals to determine the sex of a fetus, unless it is medically necessary, some parents have tried to find out the gender of their babies and then abort female fetuses.
QUESTIONS
1 Ultrasound fetus gender tests were offered in what city?
2 How did they get busted?
3 How much were the tests?
ANSWERS
1. Wuhan, in Central China's Hubei province
2. A pregnant woman reported she had received a fetus gender identification from her in a private car
3. Each pregnant woman paid 500 yuan ($79) for the test and 200 yuan to the middleman.
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