2362Female foeticide

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Female foeticide: In modernIndia

Dr.SujnanendraMishra,MD

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Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques includes

Ultra-sonography,

Foetoscopy,

Amniocentesis and Taking samples of amnioticfluid, embryo, blood or any tissue or fluid ofpregnant women after conception,

female feticide is

Aborting a female fetusaftersexdetermination test.


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FACTORS that FAVOUR..Evil of Dowry

Social Security

Religion

Small Child Norm

URBAN LivingEDUCATIONAL STATUS

SOCIETY


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Evil of Dowry

The practice of dowry ,a nationwide problem.

Now found in communities and castes in which it

had never been the custom.

Inherited from upper caste practices. In majority

of cases,

Laws failed to show any impact on the practiceof dowry.

It is estimated that a dowry death

occurs in India every 93 minutes.


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Evil of Dowry..

In marriage the groom demanded that thebrides father also provide for hisdaughters maintenance, since she was

now a financial burden on him. And thesystem of dowry started. So, a girl becamea potential financial drain on man

As a matter of prestige too, more moneyand material goods asked in dowry.

The girl was no longer desired.


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In order to continue possessing ones property, even after death,the need of an heir, a son, became necessary .

The birth of a son is regarded as essential in Hinduism and many

prayers and lavish offerings are made in temples in the hope of having

a male child.

Social Security:

Son as Social Security for old age
http://www.iheu.org/glossary/term/299http://www.iheu.org/glossary/term/299


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Religion helps ?.

The Ramayana and the

Manusmriti (the Laws

of Manu) represent the

ideal woman asobedient and

submissive, and

advocates care of a

male: first father, thenhusband, then son.

Islam permits

polygamy and gives

women fewer rights

than men.

Shame


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Small Child Norm

Faced with social burdens rarely any one prefers tohave more children.

One or two is the norm of the day .

For continuance of ones property, and gene, theneed of an heir, a son, becomes necessary.

Amniocentesis and sonography, widely available,

Termination of pregnancy is simple and accessible.

Female foeticide has become quite easy. Couple adopts evil It is better to spend Rs500 now

than Rs5,00000 (in dowry) later


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The world population hasa sex ratio of 990 femalesper 1000 males

Sex ratio:

Japan 1041

USA 1029

Indonesia 1004

Bangladesh 953

China 944

India 933

India has one of the

lowest sex ratios in theworld

WikiProject India Maps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:INMAPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:INMAP


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Source: Census of India, 2001.


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RURAL VS URBAN

CHILD SEX ratio


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Sex Ratio(Females per 1000 males)

Sl. No.

India / States / Union

Territories 1991 2001INDIA 927 933

1 Jammu and Kashmir 896 900

2 Himachal Pradesh 976 970

3 Punjab 882 874

4 Chandigarh 790 773

5 Uttaranchal 936 964

6 Haryana 865 861

7 Delhi 827 821

8 Rajasthan 910 922

9 Uttar Pradesh 876 898

10 Bihar 907 921

11 Sikkim 878 875

12 Arunachal Pradesh 859 90113 Nagaland 886 909

14 Manipur 958 978

15 Mizoram 921 938

16 Tripura 945 950

17 Meghalaya 955 975

18 Assam 923 932

19 West Bengal 917 934

20 Jharkhand 922 941

21 Orissa 971 972

22 Chhatisgarh 985 990

23 Madhya Pradesh 912 920

24 Gujarat 934 921

25 Daman & Diu 969 709

26 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 952 811

27 Maharashtra 934 922

28 Andhra Pradesh 972 978

29 Karnataka 960 964

30 Goa 967 960

31 Lakshadweep 943 947

32 Kerala 1036 1058

33 Tamil Nadu 974 986

34 Pondicherry 979 1001

35

Andaman & Nicobar

Islands* 818 846


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FEMALE FOETICIDE & INDIANS

LIVING ABROAD: Indians in other countries are going for sex selective abortions

is evident by the fact that sex ratio at birth among the Indiancommunity in New Jersey is as bad as in Punjab andHaryana.

A report in the British Newspaper, 'observer', hand come upwith evidence that British Asian women go to India to aborttheir baby girls. The British Law does not allow parents tochoose sex of their babies except to avoid certain genderlinked diseases. This forces many to go abroad. Abortion on

the ground of sex is not allowed under the Abortion Act of1967 in the UK. But sex can be disclosed by patients ifthey ask during ultrasound.


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Society today..

It speaks of a whole Society that has

gone corrupt, desiring destruction of half

its population, Are we secular, social, and

human?.In Modern India a woman isregarded as a commodity and marriage

has become more of a business alliance

than a sacred bond between two souls.

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