Female Foeticide in India Submitted by admin on 1 May‚ 2004 - 05:25 • India • IHN 2004.2 May • International Humanist News [pic] Female Foeticide in India By Indu Grewal and J. Kishore Introduction Some of the worst gender ratios‚ indicating gross violation of women’s rights‚ are found in South and East Asian countries such as India and China. The determination of the sex of the foetus by ultrasound scanning‚ amniocentesis‚ and in vitro fertilization has aggravated this situation
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Female foeticide. “Spend five hundred rupees now save five lakhs later “ -Slogan of ultrasound sex-determination clinics. Since the advent of ultrasound and detection technique for sex-determination 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India‚ according to a study conducted recently in India‚ the first systematic study on female foeticide by an Indo-Canadian team. A shocking picture emerges-every year‚ about 50‚000 unborn girls-one in every
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Female Foeticide In India India is a country of incredible ironies. It is a land where people worship myriad forms of female Shakti in quest of wealth‚ wisdom and power. In this country it is a common sight to see thousands of couples making arduous journeys every year to shrines of goddesses in order to be blessed with a child. But strangely enough‚ in this country‚ a couple is said to be ‘blessed’ only when it has a male child; for a girl is never considered a blessing in our society. Her birth
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Female Foeticide in India What is female foeticide? The act of aborting or terminating a foetus while it’s still in the womb‚ because it is female‚ is known as female foeticide. This can be done after determining the sex of the child before it’s born‚ through ultrasound scans. Although‚ sex determination in India is illegal‚ the practice is rampant and has become a multi-million dollar industry. Coupled with prospective parents desperate for a boy child‚ and physicians who are carrying out these
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FEMALE FOETICIDE INTRODUCTION: Contemporary Indian society professes a profound faith in every individual’s “right to life and dignity”. The rights relating to the weaker & vulnerable sections of Indian society especially women‚ and more specially the girl child were violated. The twin social evils of female foeticide & female infanticide were the main causes.Violence against women exists in various forms‚ in all societies‚ the world over. In 1996 the world health assembly endorsed the fact that
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Orissa Review * December - 2008 Female Foeticide in India : A Serious Challenge for the Society Dr. Krushna Chandra Jena Introduction : Women who constitute half a human population have been discriminated‚ harassed and exploited irrespective of the country to which they belong‚ unmindful of the religion which they profess and oblivious of the timeframe in which they live.1 Everywhere women are confronted with many challenges. Female foeticide is perhaps one of the worst forms of violence
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International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences Vol 1 Issue 1 January 2006 Female Foeticide and Infanticide in India: An Analysis of Crimes against Girl Children Sneh Lata Tandon1 and Renu Sharma2 University of Delhi‚ Delhi‚ India Abstract Sex selective abortions and increase in the number of female infanticide cases have become a significant social phenomenon in several parts of India. It transcends all castes‚ class and communities and even the North South dichotomy. The girl children become
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Monday for the baby boy‚ and Friday for the girl. That’s no nursery rhyme but baby talk of the most dangerous kind. Doctors carrying out sex determination tests are using everyday language and symbols to divulge the gender of the baby to wealthy families. The results are shared mostly on emails‚ and are fuelling a business worth Rs 1‚500 crore. This is particularly worrying for a state like Maharashtra which loses 4.5 lakh girls every 10 years‚ 50‚000 every year and 148 every day. This and
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Female foeticide 1) Introduction of what the topic is : define female foeticide Female foetuses are selectively aborted after pre-natal sex determination‚ thus avoiding the birth of girls. As a result of selective abortion 35 to 40 million girls are missing in Indian population. The effect has been more pronounced in the states of Punjab‚ Haryana and Delhi. It was in these states that private foetal sex determination clinics were first established and the practice of selective abortion becomes
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Female Foeticide In India‚ welfare measures like empowerment of women‚ reservation in Parliament‚ free education to girl child and a lot of other woman progressive initiative‚ do not make sense when we look at cases of female foeticide. There are only 933 females for every 1000 males against global figure of 1060 females per 1000 males. Sex ratio is a composite indicator of woman’s status in a society. If we analyse state wise sex ratio‚ it is most disturbing to note that the States like
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