Sex Selective Abortion In India And The Need For Self-Regulation Within The Medical Community

Ashutosh Yadav, BA LLB, BML Munjal University, Gurugram

ABSTRACT

A girl child can grow up to become a doctor, engineer, or an astronaut etc. Out of the million things that they can be sadly that is not what the society wants, their aspirations are cut short due to centuries old gender discrimination as they are murdered and buried before they can even exist in this world, such sex selective abortion has been a problem in many of the Asian societies because of their fond preference for a son due to primal customs of these societies which are mainly advanced because of economic and social value of one gender above the other. We often hear about the struggles of women in workplaces, household and even at positions of power but what about the ones who did not even take their first breath let alone face struggle in the world ahead. This process of predetermination of gender and then abortion of girl child is termed as female foeticide, a social evil which still plagues this great nation to this day and one of the major reasons is because of the unregulated Indian medical sector which provides these private practitioners to capitalise on the demand of the public which is fixated with having a boy.