What is female forticide
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Foeticide (or feticide) is the destruction or abortion of a fetus. Female feticide would be the destruction or abortion of a female fetus.
In our human history, and even in modern times, there has some practice of sex-selective abortions. See for example Sex-selective abortion - Wikipedia. The world has also seen sex-selective infanticide—the killing of infants after birth.
Female foeticide is the process of finding out the sex of the foetus and undergoing abortion if it is a girl. ... This decline in sex ratio means that we are not just depriving girls of human rights, we are also depriving them of their right to live.
The passing of the Female
Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870
made the practice illegal in the
British Indian regions of Punjab
and the North-Western Provinces.
The Governor-General of India had
the authority to expand the Act to
other regions at his discretion.