] BEIJING (AP) - China is planning to make selective
] abortions of female fetuses illegal as a way to close the
] widening gap between the number of boys and girls in the
] country, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
]
]
] ``The government takes it as an urgent task to correct
] the gender imbalance of newborns,'' Zhang Weiqing,
] minister of National Population and Family Planning
] Commission, was quoted as saying Thursday by Xinhua.