Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them
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The bias in favour of boys is shrinking in developing countries even as a preference for girls emerges in the rich world
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Women in America are having as many babies over their lifetimes as they did two decades ago
They are defying state efforts to make it harder
