FACTORS LEADING TO FEMALE FOETICIDE

Author Name: 1. Manjusha Choudhary 2. Dr. Abdul Latif

Volume/Issue: 03/08

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/02.2023-45838754/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Research Scholar Nursing J.J.T.U.,Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India
2. Research Guide of Nursing J.J.T.U., Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India

ABSTRACT

A girl child brings joy; she is no less than a boy” –The French quotes Feticide is an act that roots to the death of a foetus. In the legal aspects, it is described to the deliberation or subsidiary killing of a foetus due to a delinquent human act, such a gust to the abdomen or stomach of a pregnant woman. A woman and her family members need children, by bearing children is the fulfillment of both social expectations and personal desires. It sounds paradoxical but it is a fact that in India is one-side female goddesses are worshiped but on the other hand women are being oppressed by several ways irrespective of their age and status. India is a society where the male is greatly revered. As soon as a woman conceives the bigotry towards a female foets starts. Discrimination against girl child, gender bias and deep rooted prejudice has led to many cases of female foeticide in India. Although in the culture and civilization of India, the woman represents beauty, prosperity and auspiciousness and mother of human kind. Nevertheless, the social, cultural and religious fiber of India is pre-dominantly patriarchal in nature providing secondary status to woman. A girl child is considered to be a liability, hence neglected at all levels. Birth of a girl child in all strata of society, irrespective of caste, clan or economic conditions is not accepted with open arms. She is looked as a curse. Female child is generally considered inferior to the male child in every sphere of life. The old socio-cultural feelings and religious prejudice and encouraged sons preference in various communities in India. Female foeticide is usually practiced in societies due to the immature belief that having a girl child is economically and culturally less advantageous than having a boy child. Seeing all the misery like rape, domestic violence, dowry death etc. many women themselves do not want to have a girl child as they believe there is a lot of humiliation and dependence of a girl during her entire life. One of the most common and simple mechanism of eliminating the girl child is ‘Female Foeticide’. It is the act of undermining the sex of the child in the mother’s womb if it is found to be a female; to get the same aborted. ‘Foeticide’ means the destruction of foetus at any time prior to birth. The term “sex selective abortion” is preferable to the term foeticide, since it points to both of the ethical evils inherent in this practice. Female feticide has replaced female infanticide as a means to reduce or eliminate female offspring.

Key words: Female Foeticide, webs, lawmakers, judiciary, birth, existence