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Are some Asian women aborting female foetuses to ensure they have only sons? The Department of Health is investigating claims that this illegal practice is on the increase in Britain. It follows a study by the Independent Newspaper into data from the 2011 National Census which shows a significant drop in the expected proportion of girls to boys within British Asian families. It revealed that the practice of aborting females following an ultrasound scan to determine sex is likely to account for the "disappearance" of between 1,400 and 4,700 girls among the communities where gender-based abortions appear to be prevalent. In this interview Â鶹Éç London’s Sunny and Shay spoke to Sunny Hundal who is a Journalist and author on a book about Sex Selection India and started by asking them how he felt about this research.