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Half a million girls aborted every year in India

By Habon Mohamed

Researchers in India and Canada declared earlier this year that selection and selective abortion was resulting in the loss of 500,000girl births a year. (The lancet ,2006). Although this outraged the Indian government who described the findings as inaccurate and out of date, it sparked renewed concern about the growing use of sex selective abortions to satisfy parental preferences for sons.

India banned gender selection and selective abortion in 1994 but despite this, it is estimated that 10 million female foetuses may have been terminated in India in the last 20 years. There are now 36 million more men than women in India. (The Lancet, 2006). So why are girls not wanted and what are are the future implications of this unbalanced gender ratio for the country?

The key socioeconomic reasons behind the circumstances of women’s excess mortality in India and other Asian countries have been debated by......

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