Female foeticide: British journal hints India has a long way to go
[2023-01-29 20:44:06]
New Delhi: A prominent health journal British Medical Journal (BMJ) announced a shocking "case report" in the latest issue, and prohibits prenatal sex determination of women's abortion after more than 20 years I documented the details.
This report was issued by two doctors at the Chandigarh Institute of Medical Education and treated a 25-year-old patient brought in after an incomplete abortion. The private doctor said that he provided a "parcel contract" including "a midnight home visit by a handheld ultrasound device" and "abortion at home by gorilla surgery". In dark places surgery is done in the most safe and unsanitary way. One day later the woman had to be hospitalized due to excessive bleeding.
"Although women received appropriate medical intervention, this case study highlights the fact that women's abortion continues to occur in India," the report said.
Over 20 years India has fought with selective abortion for female fetuses. Since the late 1980s, the surge in ultrasound scanning technology has led to a reduction in the number of girls born in the country. The federal government passed a law prohibiting prenatal sex determination in 1994. Although it is recommended that all pregnant women perform periodic ultrasound scans, doctors do not need to disclose fetal sex. In cases of fetal abnormalities, they can recommend abortion
However, 2011 health advice census data and occasional stabbing behavior suggest that prenatal sexual disclosure and selective female abortion continue in the urban areas of the nation, especially the northern and western provinces Respectively.
According to the 2011 census data, Indian sex ratio (the number of boys per 100 girls) is 109.9, the worst case in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi are 128.4, 119.7, 114.2 respectively . And 114.2. The ratios of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra are somewhat better. Furthermore, since 1991, 80% of Indian sex ratio has declined, BMJ reported that the rate of Punjab is the highest.
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The frequency of abortion in women in India is increasing. Assuming the natural ratio is between 103 and 107, more numbers are considered hints of female abortion. According to the Indian 10 year census, the male-female ratio of Indian 0 to 6 age group increased from 102.4 per 100 females in 1961 to 104.2 in 1980, from 107.5 in 2001 to 2011 Of 108.9 people. . The sex ratio of children is within the usual natural range of all eastern and southern states of India, but in some western regions, especially northwest states such as Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu, and Kashmir (respectively) 2011 In the year, 118, 120, 116 respectively increased significantly. In the Western census of Maharashtra and Rajasthan in 2011, we found that the sex ratio of children is 113, the state of Gujarat is 112, the state of Uttar Pradesh is 111.
Detailed information on female fetuses: abortion in women in India In some Indian provinces, female birth rates are significantly reduced by abortion by gender or abortion by women compared to boys and girls. Ultrasound technology allows pregnant women and their families to know the sex of the fetus at the beginning of pregnancy. For several reasons, discrimination against girls is combined with this technique, resulting in an increase in the fetal abortion rate determined to be a woman during ultrasonography.
The sex determination of abortion in women's infants in India is growing in India. Ability to judge the sex of a baby by ultrasonic scanning can make women's abortion worse because you can decide whether to quit your baby if the baby's gender is decided. The cause of abortion is a dowry system. Parents do not want to pay dowry, they want to receive a dowry so they would rather pay abortion than donation. According to a recent article by Indu Grewal and J. Kishore, it is written that "advertisement sex decision advertisement