1. Female Foeticide

2. What is female feticide?
It is defined as aborting a female foetus after sex determination test.
Ultra-sonography and Foetoscopy helps determine abnormalities in the fetus. But it is misused to find out sex of the fetus and abortion is done if it is a girl.

3. Causes of female feticide
Obsession for Son.
Fear of dowry by many poor class families.
Girls are considered as financial obligation by many parents.

4. Consequences of female feticide
Decrease in the female population.
Adverse effect on women's health physically , mentally and emotionally.
Women are abused and sexually exploited.

5. Women
Achievers

6. Legal Initiatives The Prenatal Diagnostic Test Act (PNDT Act)
The Medical Termination Of Pregnancy Act
The Dowry Prohibition Act

7. The Prenatal Diagnostic Test Act (PNDT Act) of 1994
This Act was enacted in the year 1994 in all of the states in India , but it came into force in the year 1996.
Through this Act the use of pre-natal diagnostic techniques is prohibited and regulated.
PNDT Act was amended in 2003 with its main aim to to ban the use of sex-selection techniques as well as the misuse of pre-natal diagnostic techniques for sex- selective abortions .
More than 21,600 centres conducting pre-natal diagnostic procedure have been registered.

8. The Medical Termination Of Pregnancy Act, 1971
Was enacted by the Indian Parliament in the year and came into force in
As per India’s abortion laws only qualified doc stipulated conditions, can perform abortion on a woman in an approved clinic or hospital.
The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act of India clearly states the conditions under which a pregnancy can be ended or aborted .
Year
1972
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2003
2007
2010
Number of abortions reported
24300
214197
388405
583704
581215
570914
723142

9. The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
Prohibits the request, payment or acceptance of a dowry, demanded or given as a precondition for a marriage.
Asking or giving of dowry can be punished by an imprisonment of up to six months, or a fine of up to Rs
Indian government has modified property inheritance laws and permitted daughters to claim equal rights to their parental property.

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