US EditionFacing Gender Ratio Crisis, Vietnam Proposes Tougher Laws on Sex Selection
- Vietnam's health ministry proposed raising fines for illegal gender-based sex selection to address the country's birth sex ratio crisis as of June 2025.
- The measure comes amid a growing illegal trend and one of Asia's worst birth sex imbalances, with enforcement and current penalties considered weak.
- The draft Population Bill increases the maximum fine from 30 million to 100 million dong and covers disclosing fetal sex, sex-selective abortions, and coercion.
- The health ministry said the fine tripling to about US$3,800 aims to make offenders think twice, as the current penalty fails to deter violations.
- If enacted, the tougher fines could strengthen deterrence and improve the enforcement of Vietnam's ban on all forms of sex selection.
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Bangkok, EFE.- The Government of Vietnam plans to increase to about $3,830 the fine for revealing the sex of fetuses, a practice banned in the country since 2007, in an attempt to stop selective abortions, according to official media reports on Tuesday. The proposal comes from the Ministry of Health and consists in raising the current amount of the fine, set at 30 million dong ($1,150), to 100 million dong (about $3,830) to punish “organizations…
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