Female Foeticide- A Perspective and Problem

The importance of sexual inequality is often felt at the instance of the birth of a child. The rst question parents ask at the birth of a child, in all societies all over the world is always the same, “is it a boy or a girl?” in fact the inequality of the sexes is probably the oldest form of structural social inequality. India is a land of religion where the girl is seen as an incarnation of Goddess ‘Laxmi’. True many families are out of bounds in joy when a girl child is born in their family. They think she will bring luck, harmony, happiness and peace in their family. But in India, a most brutal form of killing females take place regularly even before they have the opportunity to be born. Female foeticide in India is the act of killing the female fetus outside of the legal channels of abortion. Female foeticide is still prevalent in Indian society; in fact, it has been a practice for hundreds of years. Narrow-minded people do not mind murdering unborn daughter for fear of giving huge amounts of dowry at the time of her marriage. The birth of a girl child is often seen as a curse to the family and the child is considered as a major burden to the parents. Some people could say that this belief was true in the past, but it is not true of the current modern times where the girls are given equal opportunity in education. Still, our country is in practice of killing an unborn female baby. Female foeticide is the selective abortion of female fetuses to killing upwards of one million females annually. Female foeticide is a relatively new practice, emerging concurrently with the advent of technological advancements in parental sex determination on a large scale in the 1990s. While abortion is legal in India, it is a crime to abort a pregnancy solely because the fetus is female. In our country female foeticide has become a major problem in contemporary society. The Female foeticide is to be stopped then there has to be a restriction on all the persons involved in such evil practice like medical professionals, clinics, people in general and also people who sell ultrasound and other medicines. This paper will discuss the practice of Female foeticide in India and the consequences of women in Indian society