Female Feticide
Since the 1970s, with the legalization of abortion and the use of
technology to predetermine the sex of the fetus, there has been an
exponential and uncontrollable increase in female fetal abortions in India. The government of India responded by introducing the PNDT Act – the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) in 1994, (implemented in 1996), which
made it illegal for the doctors to let the parents know of the sex
of the foetus through ultrasound examination.
In a study published in the medical journal Lancet which analysed
from 1.1 million households in India it was estimated that from 1977-
97 atleast 10 million female fetuses had been aborted in India. More
recent studies estimate that number to have risen to about 2-5 Million Female Fetal abortions a year.
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Relevant Links:
2-5 Million Female Fetuses Aborted Annually: Journal of Assisted Reproductive Genetics
Women forced to abort their girls: One mother speaks out
Is a ban on sex selected abortion anti abortion rights?
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An Organization that Works to save the girl child: MASUM – Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsha Mandal
