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Sex selection 性别选择 Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, andthe Consequences of a World Full of Men. By MaraHvistendahl. Public Affairs; 314 pages; $26.99 and?17.99. 《非自然选择：选男不选女和世界挤满男人的后果》。马拉?赫弗斯坦托尔。公共事务出版社; 共314页; 价格为$ 26.99美元和17.99英镑。 AS HE walked into the maternity ward of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan Hospital in Delhi onhis first day at work in 1978, Puneet Bedi, a medical student, saw a cat bound past him with abloody blob dangling from its mouth. What was that thingwet with blood, mangled, aboutthe size of Bedis fist? he remembers thinking. Before long it struck him. Near the bed, in atray normally reserved for disposing of used instruments, lay a fetus of five or six months,soaking in a pool of bloodHe told a nurse, then a doctor, I saw a cat eat a fetus. Nobody onduty seemed concerned, however. Mara Hvistendahl, a writer at Science magazine, isprofoundly concerned, both about the fact that abortion was treated so casually, and thereason. Why had the fetus not been disposed of more carefully? A nurses explanation cameout cold. Because it was a girl. 1978年，普尼特?贝迪还是名医学院学生，当他上班第一天走进德里人民领导杰布里卡什?纳拉扬医院的产科病房时，看见一只猫 嘴里叼着一个血淋淋东西快速经过他身边跑掉了。那是什么东西---湿淋淋，血肉模糊的，大约贝迪的拳头大小?他想着记起来了。不久，他被震惊了。看到床边通常留着为清理使用过的手术工具的一个托盘里放着一个五六个月的胎儿，浸泡在血液里他先告诉护士，然后医生，我看到了猫正在吃胎儿。然而，值班的人似乎并不关心。《科学杂志》的作家马拉?赫弗斯坦托尔既深刻地关注着随便对待堕胎的事实，也深刻关注堕胎的理由。为什么胎儿不能小心地处理呢?护士冷冷地解释到，因为那是个女孩。 | 
