{"id":253552,"date":"2014-05-20T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=253552"},"modified":"2014-05-20T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:47:53","slug":"new-bill-aims-to-curb-sex-selective-abortion-in-armenia-tert-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/05\/20\/new-bill-aims-to-curb-sex-selective-abortion-in-armenia-tert-am.html","title":{"rendered":"New Bill Aims to Curb Sex-Selective Abortion in Armenia: Tert.am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The RA Ministry of Healthcare is considering a legislative measure that would prohibit informing parents the sex of the child until the 30th week of pregnancy, said chair of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Healthcare, Maternity and Childhood Ara Babloyan at a meeting on &quot;The Prevalence and Causes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/25\/1400-girls-are-not-born-in-armenia-each-year-perspectives-on-contraception-abortion-in-armenia.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Sex-Selective Abortion<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in Armenia&quot; in Armenia&#39;s National Assembly today, reports <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tert.am\/en\/news\/2014\/05\/20\/project\/?sw\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>Tert.am<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to Babloyan, the bill has not yet been circulated, as they intend to discuss the issue with Members of Parliament first then send it to the government.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUNFPA Armenia Country Office Assistant Representative Garik Hayrapetyan said <a href=\"http:\/\/unfpa.am\/en\/pr-sex-selective-abortions\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>sex-selective birth<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is quite worrying in Armenia not only because people&#39;s desire to have a boy is illogical, but also because it could have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/04\/07\/sex-selective-abortion-in-armenia-could-lead-to-demographic-issues-healthcare-ministry.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>negative consequences<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>To read the rest, please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tert.am\/en\/news\/2014\/05\/20\/project\/?sw\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>original article published here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RA Ministry of Healthcare is considering a legislative measure that would prohibit informing parents the sex of the child until the 30th week of pregnancy&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12274,34977,19263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}