Andhra Pradesh

During an illegal sex determination it was revealed that the victim was carrying a girl child, after which the family members made her undergo a forceful abortion.

22nd November 2020

CHIKBALLAPUR: A 28-year-old woman died after undergoing an alleged forced abortion as her in-laws 'didn't want a third girl child' and were keen on raising a boy.

Speaking to The New Indian Express, GK Mithun
Kumar said that the woman, Sreekanya, resident of Polavarapalli Village of
Bagepalli, got married to 38-year-old Somashekar, resident of Kothapalli
Village in 2014. They gave birth to two daughters, aged about 6 and 4 years,
and the husband's family now wanted a male child.

Continued: https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2020/nov/22/woman-succumbs-to-forceful-abortion-after-family-refuses-to-raise-third-girl-child-in-karnataka-2226683.html

PM Modi looks into botched up abortion

THE ASIAN AGE. | TEENA THACKER
Published : May 28, 2017

New Delhi: The recent incident of a 26-year-old woman dying during a botched up termination of pregnancy has caught the attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The PM has sought a report from the Centre on the matter, with a mandate to the Union health ministry to strengthen the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.

The police in March had arrested a homeopath, Dr Babasaheb Khidrapure, who ran an illicit abortion racket in the Mhaisal village, Maharashtra, after the discovery of as many as 19 aborted female foetuses dumped in a sewer.

Continued at source: Asian Age: http://www.asianage.com/india/all-india/280517/pm-modi-looks-into-botched-up-abortion.html

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India: PM Modi looks into botched up abortion