Female Foeticide in India

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Female foeticide in India
Females are assassinated all over the domain. But in India, the killing of females takes
place on the regular basis, even before they are born. It is truly cursed on the Indian society.
The practice of ending a fetus, though it is still in the womb just for it is female is recognized
as female feticide. It is done afterwards predicting the gender of the child formerly it is born
through ultrasound scans. The female foeticide has turn out to be disgraceful in the nations
like India (Ramaswamy, 2017). Although, it is illegal in India The killing of more than one
million females in India on the annual basis causes disastrous significances. In certain
regions, the sex ratio of females to males has fallen to less than 8000:1000. The females get
to face not only disparity in the culture but are even left without the right to be born
(Bhattacharya & Singh, 2017). It is illegal to determine the fetus sex in India. But here are
some agencies which conduct this practice illegally. The female feticide is run by various
aspects like the viewpoint of having to pay a dowry to the prospect husband of a daughter. It
makes daughters an unaffordable economic burden on society. The preference of son over the
daughter is the prime reason behind the female infanticide. The sons provide protection to the
families in the old age whereas the daughters are considered as the economic and social
burden. Sons are also allowed to execute the cremations for the souls of defunct parents and
descendants. On the other side, ritually women are not allowed to perform such rites. The
practice of female foeticide is done itself by the mothers due to the family pressures (Rubin &
Babbie, 2016).
The prenatal sex detection technologies are misused by the people in India as it allows
discerning abortions of the females. The female infanticide is committed for a long time in
India but feticide is a disciplinary offense. The feticide is comparatively an innovative
practice and emerging with the arrival of scientific developments in the prenatal sex fortitude
in the 1990s. The abortion is permissible in India but aborting a pregnancy is not allowed if
the fetus is female. Here are severe laws and consequences for the violators in India.
Although, these laws have not been successful to control such repulsive practices (Gautam,
Jhariya & Kumar, 2015). The gender biases are the reason behind the attitude of the
patriarchal Indian society. The Vedas even highlighted the requirement of the son. The
medical procedure conducted to determine the sexes of the unborn child is Amniocentesis,
ultrasonography, foetoscopy, chronic villi biopsy and placement tissue sampling. Out of this
option, most commonly used is amniocentesis. This technology was meant to use as

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assistance to perceive any deviation in the unborn child. But over the ages, it was widely used
to identify the fetus sex between 14-18 weeks of the pregnancy. Add on the cheapest
techniques like ultrasound has made sex determination quite easier. It has resulted in the
encouragement of the growth of female foeticide at a high rate (Greene, 2017).
Rights of Female in India
The girls are not regarded as the full persons even in the high modern society of
today. The society wishes to view women as wife and mother first irrespective of the
professionals and economically independent persons. The picture of the women remains to
blur irrespective of the considerable developments which have taken place after
independence. The attitude of the society is discriminatory against women. Over 6000
women are killed in India on an annual basis because dowry is considered inappropriate by
their in-laws (Heise, 2018). The problems leading female foeticide are female infanticide,
malnourishment, illiteracy, child marriage, dowry annoyances, and dowry demises.
According to Singh, Hurley & Singh, 2017, despite the several statutory defences, the
violation of human rights take habitation in a multiplicity of systems. The desecrations
comprise political rights, opening of civil, discernment, female infanticide, women and
weedier sections of society and more (Singh, Hurley & Singh, 2017). On the other side, the
corrupted or contaminated environment is a human rights destruction. It should be identified
that the persons who contaminate or terminate the environment are not only obligating a
crime in contradiction of nature but violating human rights as well. It is observed that poverty
is the reason behind the violation of human rights. It is because poverty violates one’s
dignity. It is the manifestation of the methods of human rights destruction. Poverty sustains a
person from the right of life known as cardinal right. The rate of human destruction is
growing day by day. Human beings are required to make efforts to confront the difficult of
the human right so that they can sentient and react inventively. The education is observed as a
source to enhance the complete persona and competences of women. Other than obtaining
economic and social freedom for females on par with men, the community has considered
instruction obligatory for a good association.
The objective of this study is to identify the factors responsible for the female
foeticide along with its impact on the sex ratio. The study also aims to find conducts and
means of dropping the female foeticide. The sons are viewed as the persons who can produce