India: Two Doctors Face Action Over Female Feticide

Abortion advocates often downplay the issue of gender-specific abortion.  Specifically, the fact that in many parts of the world, boys are preferred to girls.  As of 2007 in New Delhi, the birth rate is 814 girls for every 1000 boys.
The Times of India

2 doctors face action over female foeticide

THANE: An abortion clinic and a sonography centre were sealed in the lake city and two doctors may be booked for conducting illegal sex determination tests after a sting operation by activists Varsha Deshpande and the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) indicated their role in female foeticide.
Dr Umesh Londhe, who heads Gopika Clinic in Naupada and Dr V N Jawahar, who owns the New Ultrasound Sonography Centre at Pokhran road II, are under the scanner for carrying out a prenatal gender check on a five-month pregnant woman, who was a decoy.
The woman, a practicing advocate and a member of Deshpande's NGO, Lek Ladki, which is campaigning against female foeticide, and another activist, Kailash Jadhav, approached Dr Londhe on Saturday to inquire about the test to determine their baby's sex.
"The couple was sent as a decoy after we noticed an advertisement that Dr Londhe's clinic offered help to the "needy'' who wanted to abort. Our activists met Dr Londhe at his clinic on Saturday and asked if could carry out tests. They told him that they would prefer an abortion if it was a girl as their parents were orthodox,'' Deshpande said.
An unsuspecting Dr Londhe made a feeble attempt to disuade the couple from the tests. "He said it was ironic that educated people from urban cities were consulting him for such illegal acts. Dr Londhe also told them that the state authorities had intensified their campaign against such illegal tests and such abortions attract a heavy penalty. However, the next moment he agreed to help them on the payment of Rs 70,000. After haggling, he consented to do the tests and an abortion for Rs 30,000,'' Deshpande said.
The conversation was recorded and filmed secretly by the decoys. The couple was told that should the tests show the gender of the foetus as male, they would still have to pay Rs 30,000. In fact, an advance payment of Rs 5,000 was demanded upfront and the couple was asked to report to the clinic on Sunday.
When the decoys went to the clinic on Sunday, Dr Londhe took Rs 25,000 from them. He then told the husband to sit at the clinic while he and his nurse Ashwini drove away to a sonography centre of Dr Jawahar.
"They were secretive about the centre's location. Ashwini accompanied them to the centre where tests were conducted by Dr Jawahar without filling any form or registering the patient's name.
After returning to his clinic, Dr Landhe announced that the foetus was of a girl child and that the mother would have to be admitted to his clinic for an abortion '' civic health officer Dr R Kendre said. Dr Londhe said the abortion would have to be conducted on Sunday itself and should the couple delay they would have to forfeit the Rs 25,000 paid to him. An acitivist involved in the raid told TOI that in one month 30 centres in Thane have been sealed.

Though we would like to think gender-specific abortion doesn't happen in the US, it does.  If doctors in India will break the law for cash, you can bet there are doctors here that do it too.