Preventive Measures for Elimination of Female Foeticide
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India’s legal framework stipulates equal rights for all, regardless of gender. In practice, however, unequal power equations between males and females have led to violations of women’s reproductive rights. The girl child has often been a victim to the worst forms of discrimination. Gender bias, deep-rooted prejudices, and discrimination against the girl child have led to many cases of female feticide in the country. Strong male preference, with the extreme consequence of elimination of the female child, has continued to increase rather than decline with the spread of education and economic development. This trend has been helped further with the progress in science and technology. Now, modern techniques are available to select the sex of fetus before or after conception. Female infanticide now in most places has been replaced by female feticide. Denial to a girl child of her right to live is one of the heinous violations of the right to life. It has, however, been reported that the moral guilt attached to elimination of the girl child after she is born is not felt equally if the child is eliminated while still in the womb.
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