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So how to stop people from taking this discreet, inexpensive ultrasound device to China where parents will pay a lot of money for a black-market ultrasound to b

So how to stop people from taking this discreet, inexpensive ultrasound device to China where parents will pay a lot of money for a black-market ultrasound to be told the gender of their fetus? http://shanghaiist.com/2017/07/12/ultrasound-van.php http://shanghaiist.com/2017/07/12/ultrasound-van.php http://www.havocscope.com/cost-for-illegal-ultrasound-and-abortions-in-china/ http://www.havocscope.com/cost-for-illegal-ultrasound-and-ab...

aaron695 9y ago
Aborting girls in China is exaggerated and you're certainly over playing it. What about the girls lives saved by cheap medical technology? Certainly one theory on the gender imbalance is girls tend to get less medical care due to costs and as such die at higher rates.
- jbarham 9y ago
  Is 100 million "killed, aborted or neglected" girls exaggerated? Or do you have better sources than the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 (Note that article is from 2010, there have been many more since.)
  - aaron695 9y ago
    Dime a dozen that dispute that figure but my biggest issue is with this comment is - > to China where parents will pay a lot of money for a black-market ultrasound No, normal parents don't abort girls, normal parents don't infanticide girls. The Chinese are not some sort of subhuman race that on mass do awful things to their children. Not a fan of the New Republic but it talks about the issue (and the racism behind it) https://newrepublic.com/article/133845/truth-chinas-missing-daughters https://newrepublic.com/article/133845/truth-chinas-missing-...
lancebeet 9y ago
I don't understand the argument. Should the company not create this largely beneficial technology lest it be used for bad things in China? Should they be responsible for every case of people abusing the technology? Chinese companies hardly care about the fate of western blue-collar workers when they produce cheaper products for export. Nor should they, because this is not their responsibility. Similarly, the issue of illegal ultrasounds/abortions is the responsibility of Chinese society and the Chinese government, it has little to do with this product or the company developing this product.
giarc 9y ago
Ultrasounds are already pretty portable, here's a common one used in the hospital I work in [0]. Used models are probably pretty easy to come by. Reducing the size from a laptop to a smartphone isn't going to change/create any industry like the one you described. 0 - https://www.absolutemed.com/picts/products/tnw800-GE-Voluson1.jpg https://www.absolutemed.com/picts/products/tnw800-GE-Voluson...

aaron695 9y ago

Aborting girls in China is exaggerated and you're certainly over playing it. What about the girls lives saved by cheap medical technology? Certainly one theory on the gender imbalance is girls tend to get less medical care due to costs and as such die at higher rates.

jbarham 9y ago
Is 100 million "killed, aborted or neglected" girls exaggerated? Or do you have better sources than the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 (Note that article is from 2010, there have been many more since.)
- aaron695 9y ago
  Dime a dozen that dispute that figure but my biggest issue is with this comment is - > to China where parents will pay a lot of money for a black-market ultrasound No, normal parents don't abort girls, normal parents don't infanticide girls. The Chinese are not some sort of subhuman race that on mass do awful things to their children. Not a fan of the New Republic but it talks about the issue (and the racism behind it) https://newrepublic.com/article/133845/truth-chinas-missing-daughters https://newrepublic.com/article/133845/truth-chinas-missing-...

lancebeet 9y ago

I don't understand the argument. Should the company not create this largely beneficial technology lest it be used for bad things in China? Should they be responsible for every case of people abusing the technology? Chinese companies hardly care about the fate of western blue-collar workers when they produce cheaper products for export. Nor should they, because this is not their responsibility. Similarly, the issue of illegal ultrasounds/abortions is the responsibility of Chinese society and the Chinese government, it has little to do with this product or the company developing this product.

giarc 9y ago

Ultrasounds are already pretty portable, here's a common one used in the hospital I work in [0]. Used models are probably pretty easy to come by. Reducing the size from a laptop to a smartphone isn't going to change/create any industry like the one you described. 0 - https://www.absolutemed.com/picts/products/tnw800-GE-Voluson1.jpg https://www.absolutemed.com/picts/products/tnw800-GE-Voluson...