Hohmann Sophie A, Lefèvre Cécile A, Garenne Michel L
CNRS, CERCEC, Paris, France.
Université Paris Descartes, UMR CEPED, PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France ; INED, Paris, France.
Int J Womens Health. 2014 Oct 20;6:889-97. doi: 10.2147/IJWH.S66333. eCollection 2014.
The paper proposes a socioeconomic framework of supply, demand, and regulation to explain the development of sex-selective abortion in several parts of the world. The framework is then applied to three countries of southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) where sex-selective abortion has developed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The authors argue that sex-selective abortion cannot be explained simply by patriarchal social systems, sex discrimination, or son preference. The emphasis is put on the long-term acceptability of abortion in the region, on acceptability of sex-screening by both the medical establishment and by the population, on newly imported techniques of sex-screening, and on the changing demand for children associated with the major economic and social changes that followed the dismantlement of the Soviet Union.
本文提出了一个由供应、需求和监管构成的社会经济框架，以解释世界上几个地区性别选择性堕胎的发展情况。该框架随后被应用于南高加索的三个国家（亚美尼亚、阿塞拜疆和格鲁吉亚），自苏联解体以来，这三个国家都出现了性别选择性堕胎现象。作者认为，性别选择性堕胎不能简单地用父权制社会制度、性别歧视或重男轻女来解释。重点在于该地区堕胎的长期可接受性、医疗机构和民众对性别筛查的接受度、新引进的性别筛查技术，以及与苏联解体后随之而来的重大经济和社会变革相关的对子女不断变化的需求。
