I AM YOUR BABY‚ PLEASE DON’T ABORT‚ LET ME LIVE‚ DON’T CUT ME SHORT!! This is the cry of an unborn girl. Female foeticide means killing an unborn girl. Man has covered a long distance from prehistoric ages to 21stcentury‚ during this long period of time; women had to face different eras. There was a time when worshipping god was considered incomplete without a female presence and there come such a time when she was kept behind” pardah” ‚bounded within the boundaries of her own home‚ many evils
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Although girl foeticide is illegal in India and culprits can get several years of punishment‚ it is very difficult to prove it. The two parties‚ the doctor and the couple‚ involved in the crime find it mutually beneficial. None of them complain and realize that it is a very heinous crime even more heinous than “murder because it can create imbalance in nature‚ it has potential to destroy humanity”. Female Foeticide is thus‚ the act of aborting a foetus because it is female. This is a major
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Female infanticide..... Female foeticide is the illegal practice of killing a foetus which is determined as a female. Female foeticide is prevalent in our country as a major social evil. The patriarchal social structure of India gives a secondary position to women. Social belief goes that the family runs through a male and hence the birth of a male child in the family is imminent to the carrying forward of its generation. Social discrimination and the preference for sons have given
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THEME PAPER Female Foeticide Host Organizations: TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 INTRODUCTION 4 Definition 4 Sex Ratio 5 Purpose 7 Primary Data 8 Secondary Data 8 Process 8 Reproduction rights: - 9 Economic stability: 9 Social Status: 9 Challenges 9 The Context 9 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 10 1) Government schemes 10 a) Ladli - 10 b) Kanyadaan: 11 c) Incentives for Panchayat 11 Inference 12 2) Present and past sex ratios
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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. This process began in the early 1990s when ultrasound techniques gained widespread use in India. There was a tendency for families to continuously produce
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female foeticide/ infanticide The term female foeticide means killing the female foetus in the mother’s womb. How cruel? The practice has been followed in India for ages‚ a country that once described its women as godessess. For this reason‚ Indian women will soon get extinct. Surprised? The most active part is being played by the women themselves -- why? Just for the mere want of a boy‚ mothers don’t feel bad in strangulating their daughters in their wombs. Can anyone be more cruel? In India‚ sex
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Female feticide is one of the biggest challenges that India is facing today in terms of gender. It has become a significant social phenomenon. It transcends all barriers of caste‚ class and community and even the north-south dichotomy. The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap report for the year 2007 has shown India at a dismal 120th position. The gender gap report looks at the disparities in terms of health‚ education‚ economic status and political participation between men and women
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Anti-female feticide rally NAGPUR: In an effort to create awareness about female foeticide‚ the district administration in collaboration with various doctors’ organizations‚ Zilla Parishad and various colleges and schools is organizing a massive rally on August 1. The rally will start at 7.30am from Reserve Bank square and culminate at the Traffic Park. Different organizations and colleges will also be holding street plays on the way during the rally District Collector‚ Saurabh Rao‚ on Friday
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’Work is worship’ means that all labour‚ manual or otherwise‚ is full of dignity and nobility. It equals work with prayer. It emphasizes the point that empty verbal prayers are not as valuable as real achievement in any fields. Many people in the present generation‚ however‚ have a mistaken idea that manual labor is undignified. The higher and the middle classes in our country are apt to look down upon the manual work done by the poorer classes to earn their daily bread. Though in these hard days
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gender-selective abortion of female fetuses‚ which has skewed the population towards a significant under-representation of girls in some Indian states. The "Beti Bachao" campaign is supported by human rights groups‚ non-governmental organizations‚ and state and local government in India. Contents [hide] 1 Female foeticide 2 Beti Bachao awareness campaign 3 National support 4 Effectiveness 5 See also 6 References Female foeticide[edit] Further information: Female foeticide in India Sex-selective
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