The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has attacked a legislative bill in the US state of Arkansas that seeks to prevent women seeking termination on the grounds of the gender of the unborn child. Claiming that the content of Bill 1434, soon to be placed before the state House, is unconstitutional, the ACLU’s Executive Director Rita Sklar warned that “There is very good potential for litigation because of this burden on women obtaining abortions that they want for whatever reason.” Under the bill, before a doctor could perform an abortion he or she would be required to ask the woman if she knows the sex of her unborn child. If the woman answers that she does, the doctor would be required to request the woman’s medical records relating to her pregnancy. The doctor would be prohibited from performing an abortion on the woman until “reasonable time and effort” has been spent to obtain the records. Sex-selection abortions have become a major problem across the world and have caused major demographic imbalances in places such as India and China. If Arkansas passes Bill 1434, the state will become the eighth in America to ban abortion for sex-selective reasons.