In 1994 the Indian government outlawed sex selection tests, but unscrupulous independent clinics and doctors still offer them for a fee, in private and under the radar. Khurana never wanted to have one of these prenatal scans, she tells me. In the end, she wasn’t given the choice. During her pregnancy, she claims she was tricked into eating some cake that contained egg, to which she’s allergic. Her husband, a doctor, then took her to a hospital, where a gynecologist advised her to have a kidney scan under sedation. It was then, she believes, he deliberately found out the sex of her babies
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