Let’s save a girl child and stand against the genocide that is taking place in the society. Feticide is the most dastardly form of violence against women. Since the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India.
Save a girl child: Sex determination and sex selection
Although foetal sex determination and sex selection is a criminal offence in India, the practice is rampant. Everywhere, people are paying to know the sex of an unborn child and paying more to abort the female child. People are getting sex determination done even for the first child.
Save a Girl Child: Historical connection and overall discrimination against the girl child
Save a girl child: Discrimination against the girl child and women
Female feticide and infanticide is not the only issues with a girl child in India. Again if this female gives birth to a girl child, the whole journey cycle of murder and discrimination begins all over again.
Save a Girl Child: Culpability of the Medical profession
As per some studies the industry of ultrasound and sonography, sex-selection and female feticide is around 500 crores in India and this is run through small clinics, midwives, unregistered doctors and big hospitals.
Save a girl child: Responsibility and accountability of the medical profession
Save a girl child: The oblique way of sex determination
The proof is the ever increasing number of feticide around the country especially in north India.
Save a girl child: Under-the-table fee for sex determination
Save a Girl Child: The Actual problem in terms of figures
Save a girl child: Abortion of a million foetus in a year
In India, if the 1991 Census showed that two districts had a child sex ratio (number of girls per thousand boys) less than 850; by 2001 it was 51 districts.
Save a girl child: Income level directly proportional to sex selective abortion
Ironically, as income levels are increasing, sex determination and sex selection is increasing all over India.
Save a girl child: Warning of unexpected social problems in the near future
Save a girl child: Answering ethical questions
Save a girl child: The taboo surrounding sex selective abortion One more major problem is that despite the prevalence of the ghastly and inhuman phenomenon, the decision to abort a female fetus remains a taboo, and it is difficult to persuade women to talk about the issue.
Save a Girl Child: Misuse of technology
The social evil of discrimination and marginalization of women and killing of girl child is ironically deep rooted in Indian ethos and the most shocking fact is that the innovative and hard high end technologies have actually helped in the brutal killing of the Indian girl child.
Save a girl child: The technology as the devil
There are far less questions to be answered when you abort a girl child rather than kill a baby girl.
Save a Girl Child: Related ; Associated issues
Save a girl child: Feticide a symptom of a larger problem
Feticide is related to issues as varied as privatisation of medical education and dowry.
Save a girl child: Affluent farmers and feticide
Save a girl child: Male child selection in nuclear families
Save a girl child: Demand Vs. Supply debate
Save a girl child: Tougher regulation and control
Save a girl child: Need for female youth icons and role models
Save a girl child: Laws against violence and discrimination of women Other issues which are attached to the overall discrimination and marginalization of women include the laws for violence against women such as dowry, domestic violence, rape which are directly in the control of a largely inefficient and corrupt police force which in fact is biased against women with its colonial hangover and resultant approach of doing things.
Save a girl child: Urgent need for police reforms
Just like many other laws of the country the law preventing sex determination and sex selection exits but enforcement is a big question mark.
Save a girl child: Myths to be shattered
Save a girl child: Abortions by working women
Save a girl child: The bane of consumer culture
Save a girl child: Outdated social practices and their consequences
The social and cultural settings are negatively biased against women.
Save a girl child: The misconception that poverty leads to feticide
Save a Girl Child: Law against feticide and Implementation of the law
Save a girl child: The Act that was passed in 2003
Save a girl child: Creating acts and laws not sufficient to deal with the problem
Save a Girl Child: Sensitization of the society
Save a girl child: Awareness in the society
Save a girl child: Implementation of the law
Save a girl child: Changing the attitude
Save a Girl Child: Closing comments
It’s high time we all did our bit to help save the girl child as time is really running out for the girl child in India.
Save a Girl Child
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