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Where Are The Girls?

India’s Sex Ratio at Birth Has Widened In Several States, National Family Health Survey Finds

...negative trends in some states’ sex ratio at birth, with boy births outnumbering girl births, suggesting sex-selective abortions remains a worrying trend in India. The health survey overall records a...

Self-Constructed Pedestals

After Roe V. Wade Overturning, Indians Are Rushing to Prove Their Superiority. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.

...between abortion and sex-selective abortions. Terms like ‘female foeticide’ attributing personhood to fetus instead of ‘sex-selective abortions’ are used interchangeably and create confusion,” noted journalist Neha Dixit. Sex-selective abortions by...

By Saumya Kalia

Lax Implementation Behind Southern States’ Dip in Sex Ratio at Birth

...sex-selective abortions, according to Dr. Neelam Singh, a gynecologist and chief functionary of the non-governmental organisation Vatsalya in Lucknow. In the southern states, “it is either the unwillingness of the...

No Girls Among 216 Babies Recently Born in Uttarakhand District

...an average, at least 2,332 sex-selective abortions took place every day despite laws that prohibit sex selection or disclosure of the sex of the fetus. The Pre-Conception and Prenatal Diagnostic...

By Anubhuti Matta

Indian Chemists Are Not Stocking Medical Abortion Pills Anymore, Putting Millions of Women at Risk

...used for sex-selective abortions is a misconception. Here are the facts: In India, it is legal to get an abortion up to 20 weeks of pregnancy under the Medical Termination...

By Pallavi Prasad

Why Do Indians Resort To Sex‑Selective Abortions?

Why is India one of the only countries in the world with a skewed sex ratio? Dr. Mary John, Professor at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, explains....

Complaint to Child Rights Commission Puts Spotlight on Sex‑Selective IVF

A complaint made in March to the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights is gaining momentum, putting sex-selective IVF practices in the spotlight. Shubhangi Bhostekar, a resident of...

By Liesl Goecker

Old Norms Die Hard

Evidence of Son Preference Found Among Second‑Generation Indian Diaspora

...abortion, the male-to-female ratio was not elevated. This disparity suggests sex selective abortion is at play. It is also similar to the skewed male-to-female birth ratio identified in a prior...

By The Swaddle Team

Abort Exclusion

Govt Allows Abortion up to 24 Weeks in ‘Special’ Cases, But The Law Is Inadequate

...creating inequality in access.” The history of the MTP has always been contentious, but what complicates it further is its entanglement with sex-selective abortion in discourse. Experts have noted that...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

What’s Really Behind Female Foeticide

...classes. India’s affluent and educated are no less guilty, even if they’re not the ones actually getting abortions; traveling to Thailand for sex-selective IVF procedures amounts to the same thing...

By The Swaddle Team

Hard-Earned Incentive

UP’s Two‑Child Policy Overlooks Women’s Access to Education As a Population Control Measure

...have an unintended impact on sex-selective and unsafe abortions and further skew the sex ratio. At the same time, while the question of if education is the best contraceptive sounds...

By Saumya Kalia

70+ U.S. Organizations Launch the First‑Ever Global Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Justice

...does little to counter nuances — for instance, the deep-rooted socio-cultural preference for sons in India leading to rampant sex-selective abortions. To what extent this “global” blueprint is truly applicable...

By Pallavi Prasad

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