Indian Abortion - India's Lost Female Generation

India’s lost female generation

Selective termination of pregnancy on the basis of sex has been illegal in India since 1994 however numbers of girls in India has been steadily falling for the past 20 years relative to the number of boys. Selective termination was made illegal thirteen years ago, there are a reported 10 million girls missing in India and only one doctor has been convicted of carrying out the crime.

Many families believe that their family will be unbalanced without an heir, someone to carry on the bloodline, the name and to look after their parents when they become old. If a girl marries the parents must pay a dowry to the other family, for example if you had three daughters and they all married, it would cost the parents a great deal of money whilst their in-laws feel the financial benefits. This used to leads to parents killing their baby if it was female whereas now in modern society doctors can find out the sex of the baby and have it terminated if it’s female.

The surgeons benefit the most from selective termination, how are the parents to know if the doctor is wrong, the doctor being the only consultant they are likely to see. The scans are not always as accurate as believed, so doctors do not always know the sex, they can either terminate the unborn baby, play it safe, or let it be born and be ruined or sued if it’s a girl. The doctors and surgeons can be become wealthy through abortion.

There are of course much worse places to have abortions, in the unhygienic illegal abortion clinics. Twenty four month fetus have their skulls drilled and their brains removed so that their skulls collapse easier, this procedure is normally carried out by an unskilled worker several months ago, hundreds of female baby bones were found. The couple running the clinic, a retired soldier and his wife, have been arrested for infanticide. While operating on a women they could have given her any type of life threatening disease, most women would have been forced to an illegal clinic by the legal abortion cost.

The MPs of India woke up to a deepening crisis in their country, where the unmarked graves of babies are buried in back gardens their flesh burnt from their bodies and their bones crushed, for such a trivial reason as that they are better-off. Hundreds of female babies will be left in hospitals over Christmas for the government to look after. The situation