1. Taylor was arrested on charges of attempted feticide.

2. Despite laws banning sex determination tests, female feticide is common in much of India, where families iew boys as being a better asset than girls.

3. China dropped a place to 61st because of the prevalence of female feticide - aborting baby girls because of a cultural preference for boys.

4. Methods: The fetal faces of 1028 pregnant women in medium and late pregnancies were imaged by three-dimensional ultrasound and compared with after feticide or birth.

5. In countries where there is a strong preference for sons, these newer, sophisticated technologies can be misused, facilitating female feticide.

6. She spent two days in jail before the charges were dropped because she was in her second trimester, and Iowa's feticide laws don't kick in until the third.