What do you mean by female foeticide?
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Female foeticide in India is the abortion of a female foetus outside of legal methods. The frequency of female foeticide in India is increasing day by day. The natural ratio is assumed to be between 103 and 107, and any number above it is considered as suggestive of female foeticide.
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Female foeticide:
- Female foeticide is the procedure of detecting out the sex of the embryo and undergoing an abortion if it is a girl. But it is illegal; still, many people are still practicing it.
- Preference for a male child, dowry system, cultural preference are few reasons for increasing number of female foeticide in India.
- Apart from this, there are some groups that practice and supports female infanticide - the use of killing the baby girl once she is born.
- This fact can be proved true by looking at the census of 2001 which convey that there are only 933 women in this nation for every 1000 men.
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