Essay on female foeticide
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Since the ancient time, women in the Indian society are considered as a curse for their family and society. Due to these reasons, female foeticide has been in practice for many years in the India from the time of technological advancement. According to the census of 2001, female and male ratio has been 927 to 1000. Few years ago, almost all the couple was used of the sex determination tests to know the sex of the infant before birth. And abortion was sure in case of girl baby.
Development of ultrasound technique was the origin of sex determination tests in the early 1990’s. People in the Indian society are used to of giving birth to the child continuously until they get boy baby by killing all the girl baby earlier to the boy. In order to control the population and stop female foeticide, Government of India made various rules and regulations against female foeticide and trend of abortions after sex determination tests. Killing of a baby girl through abortion has been an offence all through the country. Doctors found performing sex determination tests and abortions especially for killing girl baby would be guilty and lose their license. Awareness about the importance of girl child in the society is major weapon to get relief from the female foeticide.
Among many social stigmas present in the Indian society like caste-based discrimination, widening gap between rich and poor, denial of rights to minorities, oppression of women and others, the evil of female feticide is the most cruel and dangerous, that should be stopped immediately.
There's a reason behind this, all others social evils erupted with time and are in society for centuries. But with the advancement of embryo-scan technology, the female feticide has prevailed as an evil for what entire humanity would have to pay the price.
There wouldn't be generations to face the consequences of this social evil, as there would be no one left to rear the generation, to bring the offspring in future, if there would be no women left.
There had been many campaigns to fight against this evil, but only solution to eradicate this social evil is to begin a mass movement. When women would be given equal rights, there would be denial of voting rights, subsidies and other privileges for female fetus killers, strict rules to debar the doctors forever who indulge in these killings, there would be a fear. While mass awareness can bring the courage, fear would instil the discipline needed to end this social evil.