Foeticide In India Research Articles

Female Foeticide in India: A Crime against Nature

Female Foeticide in India: A Crime against Nature

Female Foeticide in India- A Bitter truth of the modern Society

Female Foeticide in India- A Bitter truth of the modern Society

Analysis of the Skewed Sex Ratio and Female Foeticide in India

The present study is aimed at drawing attention and concern of the readers towards nefarious female foeticide problem in India. Female Foeticide is the death sentence to a girl even before her birth. The objectives of the study are met by analysing the problem of female foeticide by studying skewed sex ratio and child sex ratio in India and its states. The primary causes of female foeticide are addressed along with its adverse consequences on society. Study on the status of sex ratio in countries of world lists India at 4rth rank in most skewed sex ratio. Although sex ratio has improved recently yet child sex ratio is still the worst in India. The Northern Indian states & union territories have lowest sex ratio. The rural areas with less literacy have more sex ratio than urban areas with higher literacy. Indian government has taken many initiatives to promote girl child birth and enacted a number of laws to curb female foeticide, yet the immoral female foeticide is still in practice. Present study also suggests some measures to prevent this malpractice and hence empower the Women.

Structural violence by state: India’s indirect endorsement towards the three decades-long sex-selective abortion (SSA)

This research aims to contribute to the debate on structural violence by state, by explaining how pro-human rights policies ironically can be produced, implemented, and used by state as instruments to perpetrate human rights violations. By using the concept of structural violence, this research is offered that the Indian government has allowed the practice of female foeticide in India to continue to occur among India's poor women from 1994 to 2014 through the implementation of anti-sex-selective abortion (anti-SSA) policy: Pre-Course Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (PCPNDT) Act of 1994. This study attempts to investigate how the Indian government perpetuates structural violence by producing, implementing, and maintaining this provenly ineffective human rights policy by using qualitative method and secondary data. This paper finds that the neglect of intersectionality analysis in the design of the policy is a form of structural violence conducted by the Indian government. In this case Indian government has implemented segmentation and marginalization in order to allow the continuation of female foeticide among its poor women for the last three decades. Generally, the neglect of intersectionality analysis in the policy represents the government’s support towards the high preference of boys and extremely low preference of girls, especially poor girls and girls from the outcast. Although the anti-SSA policy has been in place since 1994, data on sex ratios at birth from 1982 to 2014 show that the gap between the births of girls and boys is becoming more and more imbalanced. Various researchers found that the policy was not effective in resolving the problem of sex ratios due to its poor implementation management that caused difficulties in arresting the perpetrators of SSA and regulating the practice up to the grassroots level. However, this paper argues that poor management is not the main cause the policy is failing. This research finds that the Indian government deliberately excludes & does not recognize the identity of poor & outcast women in the policy design. In fact, the practice of SSA is mostly carried out by women in these segments.

Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1995 in the Light of Centre for Enquiry Into Health & Allied Theme vs. Union of India, 2003: Case Critique

The PNDT (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act was passed in the year 1996 in order to prevent misuse of sex determination technology for sex-selective abortion owing to increased female foeticide in India. Female foeticide is the killing of the foetus on the basis of parental determination of sex of the foetus if it is a girl child. Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) vs. Union of India and Others is a 2003 Supreme Court judgement vis-a-vis Writ Petition (C) No. 301 of 2000 apropos effective implementation of Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1995. The case is a landmark judgement vis-a-vis fostering gender equality in the society as it outlawed the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques being misused in the country for sex-selective abortion. This Supreme Court criminalized the practice of pre-natal sex-determination to exterminate the menace of rampant female foeticide despite the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1995 being in action. Therefore, this judgement is a path-breaking judgement as the supreme Court kept continued monitoring over the implementation of its orders to effectuate the provisions of the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1995 in actuality.

The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act and its implication on advancement of ultrasound in anaesthesiology; time to change mindsets rather than laws.

Ultrasonography (USG) has a continuously expanding role in anaesthesiology, critical care and pain management and has enhanced and refined patient care. The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act was established to counter the persistent problem of female foeticide in India. This unique problem which seems to be rooted in our social structure has indirectly impeded the evolution of USG as a widespread tool in medicine in our country. This brief review is aimed at highlighting the expanding role of USG in anaesthesia practice and training, nuances of the PCPNDT act and its implications on the growth and management of ultrasound technology in anaesthesia, in India.

Magic Realism, Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Children’s Fiction in India: Reshaping Gender Attitudes

One of the objectives of using fiction as a medium of socialization of children is to infuse an understanding of gender roles in society. A number of children’s fiction books published in India in the last couple of decades have addressed this concern and contemporary critical studies on children’s literature have focused on the representation of gender and the biases inherent in it. Globalisation and the staggering advance of technology have triggered innovative fictional responses to gender roles and attitudes to appeal to the digital generation addicted to virtual reality and video games. The children’s text examined in this study represents technology as empowering adolescents and investing them with the capacity to transform age-old conservative attitudes towards gender identities specifically manifested in the still recurrent practice of female foeticide in India. Ranjit Lal’s Faces in the Water, creates a kind of magic realism by interweaving virtual reality into an everyday organic world, almost blurring the distinction between the two; an experimental narrative device that aims at re-examining conventional notions of masculinity and feminity. The purpose of creating an alternate world of virtual experiences is to comment upon the real world and effect transformatory action.

Changing strategies of female foeticide in India: a never ending story

Once a young lady, walked in the OPD with history of bleeding per vagina for last 24 hours. It was a case of retained products of conception subsequent to induced incomplete abortion. Later we came to know that a team of local private doctors with portable ultrasound machine and MTP kits used to come in the study areas at night hours. This mobile team offered a package deal to the clients. Part one was sex determination test. When a female fetus was detected they offered to do induce abortions (on the spot). This is done in a clandestine way. The team used to leave after initiating the procedure. For any complication they were advised to go to hospital OPD presenting as P/V bleeding to avoid punishment under Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994. As we know every action has an opposite reaction. To prevent female feticides government enacted PNDT Act as an action. Reaction to this people started prenatal sex selection. Again the governmental action was amendment of Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of misuse) (PNDT) Act, 1994 to PC-PNDT ACT. People's reaction was sex selection in a static van. Due to raids it was converted to mobile van. In our case study it is seen that, to avoid the PC-PNDT Act, people devised a newer strategy. A strategy for sex determination and female feticide by a mobile team with portable ultrasound machines. Our case study is important because we have just explored the tip of the iceberg only. A lot of efforts should be done. Until and unless the people understand the value of women in the society, this kind of reaction will take place again and again.

Autonomy of educated urban women and their attitude towards female foeticide in India

Autonomy of educated urban women and their attitude towards female foeticide in India

Disciplining the sex ratio: exploring the governmentality of female foeticide in India

The ‘girl child’ has attracted a considerable amount of attention in India as an object of policy addressing gender discrimination. This article examines the field of campaigns seeking to address female foeticide and positions the public discourse on the ‘girl child’ and sex selective abortion in India within a broad cultural backdrop of son preference. The article argues that anti-female foeticide campaigns exist within a disciplinary domain of female foeticide which both generates a discourse of saving the ‘girl child’ and also shows attempts to utilise both incentives and punitive measures in carving out a female foeticide carceral space.

Female Foeticide in India: Looking Beyond Son Preference and Dowry

This paper attempts to discuss the basal factors that impel people to choose to practice female foeticide in India. Son preference and the cost of providing dowries are very important in this regard, but not the only reasons. Apart from their economic, social, and religious value to the parents, sons also play a signal role in defending the family against violence. However, the degree of son preference shows strong positive correlation with level of daughter aversion in large parts of the country. Hence, in order to locate the basal reasons of female foeticide, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of both son preference and daughter aversion.

Informal Social Networks, Sonography and Female Foeticide in India

This article explores the relationship between the ultrasound technology, sex-selective abortions and the culture of reproduction mediated by informal social networks. By informal networks here is meant social/neighbourhood and kinship ties, both as a means and a resource, and the manner these are used by people in the community. The focus is to bring out the manner the informal and social dimensions of relations people have with providers of reproductive medical services and employees of the state, who as members of the same society also share a common cultural perspective and values, are revealed in everyday practice. The article focuses on the multilayered relationship between members of the community and their relationships in organising social and biological reproduction. The deficit of girls in 0-6 age group occurs from a combination of anti-natalist policy, legalised abortion, and illegal foetal sex determination test mediated through informal networks.

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Fighting female foeticide in India: Legally and also

International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsVolume 70, Issue S1 p. A59-A59 Daily featured studies 1 Fighting female foeticide in India: Legally and also A. Basu-Senguota, A. Basu-SenguotaSearch for more papers by this authorK. Banik, K. BanikSearch for more papers by this author A. Basu-Senguota, A. Basu-SenguotaSearch for more papers by this authorK. Banik, K. BanikSearch for more papers by this author First published: 09 December 2003 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7292(00)82660-0AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume70, IssueS12000Pages A59-A59 RelatedInformation

Toward a reconceptualization of "choice": challenges by women at the margins.

This article reviews the feminist literature on the conceptualization of “choice” within the reproductive rights movement in the United States, focusing particularly on the critiques of “choice” by women of color and women with disabilities. The article then zeroes in on the debate surrounding female foeticide in India, and draws out the implications for both the conceptualization of “choice” and of a reproductive politics based on “choice,” in light of the critiques presented by women at the margins, and in light of the struggles taking place in the arena of reproductive politics.