Madison Barlow Mrs. Burns English 10 Honors April 10‚ 2013 Female Infanticides in China For many decades China has been carrying out brutal actions among female infants which are known to be female infanticides. Female infanticides started in 1957 when China’s Chairman Mao Zedong wanted the country’s population to stay under six million for many years (Jimmerson). Leaders then came to a realization that a long term action would have to take place. Therefore they proposed a law stating that a
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population. The only reason for decreasing women population is killing of girl foetus before birth. Owing to the advancement of science and technology and subsequent development of ultrasonic technique‚ it is very easy to know the sex of the foetus within few months of its formation‚ so that couples who do not want to have girl child abort the fetus. In other words‚ they get their child murdered in the womb. Although girl foeticide is illegal in India and culprits can get several years of punishment
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Female foeticide 1) Introduction of what the topic is : define female foeticide Female foetuses are selectively aborted after pre-natal sex determination‚ thus avoiding the birth of girls. As a result of selective abortion 35 to 40 million girls are missing in Indian population. The effect has been more pronounced in the states of Punjab‚ Haryana and Delhi. It was in these states that private foetal sex determination clinics were first established and the practice of selective abortion becomes
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thinking what female infanticide is‚ female infanticide is when an infant is killed within the 24 hours of the birth. Female infanticide takes place mostly in third world countries. This process is so common‚ mostly happen in poor society. Female infanticide is leading to imbalance of sex ratio. There are more males then females. This is going to give females more power and dowry system will end. There are bad things to female infanticide too‚ there will be very less girls to marry to and
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Female infanticide..... Female foeticide is the illegal practice of killing a foetus which is determined as a female. Female foeticide is prevalent in our country as a major social evil. The patriarchal social structure of India gives a secondary position to women. Social belief goes that the family runs through a male and hence the birth of a male child in the family is imminent to the carrying forward of its generation. Social discrimination and the preference for sons have given
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I AM YOUR BABY‚ PLEASE DON’T ABORT‚ LET ME LIVE‚ DON’T CUT ME SHORT!! This is the cry of an unborn girl. Female foeticide means killing an unborn girl. Man has covered a long distance from prehistoric ages to 21stcentury‚ during this long period of time; women had to face different eras. There was a time when worshipping god was considered incomplete without a female presence and there come such a time when she was kept behind” pardah” ‚bounded within the boundaries of her own home‚ many evils
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Cons Female Circumcision Student One Communication Essentials Hermann Tatchen Wednesday‚ March 27‚ 2013 Cons Female Circumcision Some people believe that female circumcision is a traumatic‚ awful thing to do to a human being. Some people may see circumcision as an adequate form of disease control or some believe it’s a way of making a female pure by having her clitoris cut. It is not right to make decisions on behalf of another human‚ especially when
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Female Foeticide in India What is female foeticide? The act of aborting or terminating a foetus while it’s still in the womb‚ because it is female‚ is known as female foeticide. This can be done after determining the sex of the child before it’s born‚ through ultrasound scans. Although‚ sex determination in India is illegal‚ the practice is rampant and has become a multi-million dollar industry. Coupled with prospective parents desperate for a boy child‚ and physicians who are carrying out these
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FEMALE FOETICIDE INTRODUCTION: Contemporary Indian society professes a profound faith in every individual’s “right to life and dignity”. The rights relating to the weaker & vulnerable sections of Indian society especially women‚ and more specially the girl child were violated. The twin social evils of female foeticide & female infanticide were the main causes.Violence against women exists in various forms‚ in all societies‚ the world over. In 1996 the world health assembly endorsed the fact that
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Female Foeticide In India India is a country of incredible ironies. It is a land where people worship myriad forms of female Shakti in quest of wealth‚ wisdom and power. In this country it is a common sight to see thousands of couples making arduous journeys every year to shrines of goddesses in order to be blessed with a child. But strangely enough‚ in this country‚ a couple is said to be ‘blessed’ only when it has a male child; for a girl is never considered a blessing in our society. Her birth
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