foeticide
Forced to Abort, Tortured: Indian Women Continue to Face Violence Over Obsession With Male Children
In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a man ripped open his pregnant wife’s belly to find out if it was a boy.
Alarming Report Finds Not a Single Girl Born in 132 Indian Villages Since April
"We have discovered that out of a total of 216 deliveries, not a single girl child has been born in 132 villages, which is suspicious and has highlighted female foeticide."
Women Are Being Prosecuted for Losing Their Babies
The abortion argument has rumbled on noisily for over a century in this country. These cases of women getting prosecuted for losing their babies isn't unrelated to that debate, but it is more of a sideshow, in which laws made to punish people who...
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