The articles topic is about the tragedy of abortion of female fetuses in modern day India.…
(1990). Female infanticide in China: an examination of cultural and legal norms. UCLA Pac. Basin LJ, 8, 47.…
The problem at hand is “Should a Pregnant Woman be Punished for Exposing Her Fetus to Risk? This article presented me with two different opinions. There is Jean Toal, from Majority Opinion, Cornelia Whitner, Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner (July 15, 1997). The other opinion comes from Lynn M. Paltrow, from “Punishment and Prejudice: Judging Drug-Using Pregnant Women,” in Julia E. Hanigsberg and Sara Ruddick, eds., Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas (Beacon Press, 1999). There has been much debate surrounding this issue. The first case is involving Cornelia Whitner who pled guilty to criminal child neglect after her baby was born addicted to crack cocaine. (Whitner v. SC) The main focus here is the definition of “Person”. South Carolina for the longest has recognized that viable fetuses fit the definition of a “person”. Therefore the courts had no difficulty in holding the mother responsible for the neglect of the child. Ms. Whitner also argued that her pleading guilty and her drug use being made known was a violation of her right to privacy. Pozgar talks about the Privacy Act of 1974 which was enacted to safeguard individual privacy from the misuse of federal records, to give individuals’ access to records concerning themselves that re maintained by federal agencies and to establish a Privacy Protection Safety Commission. (Pozgar, 2011). However, this author based on all the evidence presented doesn’t believed her rights were violated being that crack cocaine is an illegal substance that she should not have had in her possession in the first place.…
To understand why they are killed, Interactionists look at what makes people kill them. Raising a girl is very expensive in India. The meaning that Indians attach to the birth of a baby girl is that of a burden to the family. However, western cultures tend to think of every child as a gift and a blessing, no matter what gender. A doctor interviewed for a TV documentary said that she does not report families that kill their infant girls, because it is a generally accepted societal practice. A lot of people are poor and few can afford the cost associated with raising a girl. When getting married, the groom's family is paid a dowry for taking over the obligation of the bride. Getting back to the doctor, comparing her own conduct to that of others, she does not find anything wrong with not reporting those murders since others do not report them either. By her own admission, however, if others were to begin reporting the murders of infant girls, she would then adjust her own conduct accordingly and also start to report the killings. The response to the killings depends on the meaning and significance that is attached to that death, and right now the doctor sees it as insignificant and not worth…
One of the reasons that abortion is not acceptable in Hinduism is that it deters the mother from doing her duty to her family. It is part of the responsibility of the mother to her family to continue her family line and produce more members into society. However, there are instances that the religious ban on abortion is overruled by a cultural preference for sons. For example, in India there is a preference for sons so there are some instances in which “female feticide” occurs to prevent the birth of girls and increase the chance for the birth of a…
Cited: Abrejo, Farina Gul, Babar Tasneem Shaikh and Narjis Rizvi. 2009. “And they kill me, only because I am a girl’ . . . a review of sex-selective abortions in South Asia.” The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care 14(1):10–16…
Abortion comes in many forms because of different reasons causes it. The biggest reason which causes abortion is sex-selection. Sex-selection has been practiced in the past; but in the modern world, they reduced much but some are still doing it silently. A very clear example of how abortion is practicing nowadays is from the article of Artemisia Ng., when she mentioned a story refers to the abortion that happens in China. In “Protecting women and girls in China, where one child per family is the rule - and a boy the preference”, Chai was a protester who was being wanted in China. Artemisia Ng. included Chai’s thought in the article: “Chai was referring to China 's one-child policy, in which officials force pregnant women to abort their babies. In place since 1979, the "one child" rule has prompted many Chinese to practice sex selection, using ultrasound screenings to determine whether the fetus is a boy or girl and then aborting females or abandoning them after birth to orphanages. More than 35,000 forced abortions were performed in China each day in 2009.”( Ng.) This information is really shocking; just in China, that is an average of over ten millions of babies is being killed each year. Since the Chinese refer to male babies, the ratio between boy and girls will increase dramatically. The effect of this abortion affect the geography factors; but more importantly, it is breaking the society morals.…
Even an unborn baby can suffer effects of domestic abuse, many people believe the baby is safe inside their mother but while the abuse is going on throughout the pregnancy, the baby could be affected by the strong emotions the mother is feeling. The baby could be born with physical and / or emotional problems as a result of the domestic…
For many decades China has been carrying out brutal actions among female infants which are known to be female infanticides. Female infanticides started in 1957 when China’s Chairman Mao Zedong wanted the country’s population to stay under six million for many years (Jimmerson). Leaders then came to a realization that a long term action would have to take place. Therefore they proposed a law stating that a couple could only have one child and two at the most if the net household income increased (Jimmerson). When this law was proposed, families pushed for males, this led to a significant decrease in the female population in the rural areas of China.…
in part. Yet amidst many changes that threaten the global community’s future, demographic changes have caused increasing…
The implications of gendercide are multiple. One of the implications is that there is a major sex ratio difference. In China specifically, there is a surplus of bachelors, which causes issues including human trafficking and bride-abduction. There used to be a stable ratio of boys born to girls, which was between 103-106 boys to every 100 girls. Now, those numbers have changed, which is only possible through human intervention. Thinking of gendercide, most tend to immediately look at China’s one-child only policy, but it is common in other countries as well, including India where like China, it is an issue containing large regional disparities. Polls show that there is still a large “son preference” in…
This article talks about widespread practice of killing girl babies and fetuses in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu…
4. Sumner, Molly. M. (2009). The unknown genocide: how one country’s culture is destroying the girl child. International journal of nursing practice. 65-68.…
Most societies agree that it is a basic human nature to care for one’s infant. They don’t put a lot of emphasis on the sex of the baby, just that it’s a strong and healthy baby. But, in Japan and India the sex of the baby is just as important as the health of the baby. Infanticide-the killing of an infant by the parent- has been…
Female feticide and infanticide are the most popular social evils prevailing in the country. This evil is the outcome of poverty, illiteracy and gender discrimination. The country fails to understand, how a mother can be so ruthless and vulnerable.…