Sex-selective abortion: Evidence from a community-based study in Western India / Bela Ganatra, Siddhi Hirve and V. N. Rao.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Ganatra, Bela, author.

Contributor:

Hirve, Siddhi.

Rao, V. N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

India.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 16, no. 2, p. 109-124 16:2<109 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2001.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Selective abortion of female foetuses has been documented in India as early as the late 1970s when amniocentesis for genetic screening became available (Ramanama and Bambawale, 1980), but it was only with the increasing availability of ultrasound technology in the mid-1980s that the practice became widespread. Most of the existing evidence on sex-selective abortion comes from micro-studies in northern India. These have demonstrated a widespread acceptance of the practice, and several researchers have documented indirect evidence in the form of increasing sex ratios at birth in hospitals or within communities (Booth and others, 1994; Gu and Roy, 1995; Khanna, 1997; Sachar and others, 1990 and 1993; Sahi and Sarin, 1996). While abortion (also called medical termination of pregnancy, or MTP) on broad social and medical grounds has been legal since 1972, sex selection is not. The state of Maharashtra, where the present study was conducted banned prenatal sex selection in 1988; the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Bill made sex detection tests illegal throughout India in 1994.

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