Female Feticide
Let’s Stop Murdering Our Daughters B rothers and sisters, our society is struggling with innumerable social evils, of which gender-bias is the most recognizable of them all. Across cultures and societies, females have always been looked down upon as the lesser sex- a liability, a burden, a shame. Women are being denied the right to food, right to education, right to career, right to inheritance, right to a decent living and even the right to life. Yes, Female Infanticide, and of late, Female Feticide is the bitter and uncomfortable truth that is undermining the very foundations of our society. Female Feticide: Female feticide is defined as the selective abortion of a fetus for the sole reason that it is a female. With the widespread use of Ultrasound (Sonography) since the 1990s for gynecological procedures, medical diagnosis and treatment has become more advanced. However, it has brought with it the curse of pre-natal sex determination. It has now become very easy to dete