The legislation to ban abortions based on genetic defects also would ban abortion based on gender selection.

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The Guttmacher Institute, which tracks abortion laws throughout the country, says Pennsylvania, Arizona and Oklahoma also have laws outlawing abortion based on gender selection.

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The main impetus isn't the prospect of gender selection, although that will add fuel to the fire, but the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research.

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Indeed, given the murky gender politics that Labour's candidate-selection process is liable to throw up, Mr Dewar may find that his choice of site for the new parliament is more laden with historical allusion than he imagined.

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She argues that courts should screen for weight bias during juror selection and should address weight bias in judicial instruction, which already covers race, gender and ethnicity biases.

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