Feb 6, 2024
Tirana (AFP) – When Lina discovered she was pregnant with another girl, she decided to terminate the pregnancy, after her husband grew increasingly violent over the prospect of having a fourth daughter instead of a boy.
The decision was one that has become relatively common in her native Albania and across the Balkans, where a dominant patriarchal culture has pushed many families to pin their hopes on a son.
Bengaluru police have arrested a medical doctor who allegedly performed 900 illegal abortions in the last three years, or 20 every month, under an elaborate sex-determination-cum-female foeticide racket
Chetan B C
Nov 26, 2023
Bengaluru police have arrested a medical doctor who allegedly performed 900 illegal abortions in the last three years, or 20 every month, under an elaborate sex-determination-cum-female foeticide racket.
Dr Chandan Ballal and his lab technician, Nisar, were arrested last week, police sources said. Dr Ballal reportedly charged around Rs 30,000 for each abortion.
Anisha Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Ashoka University
27 Oct 2023
In response to alarming imbalances in its child sex ratio, in 1994 India passed an act prohibiting prenatal diagnostic methods for sex-determination and sex-selective abortions. This column explores the unintended impact on human capital attainment. It finds that the ban led to an increase in female births but also worsened health and educational outcomes for children who were born into intensively treated families. It also identifies a widening gender gap in human capital attainment after the ban. Key underlying mechanisms include increased fertility in families where girls are born, to achieve a desired number of sons, as well as increased discrimination against unwanted daughters.
They found over five prenatal mothers from Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri and Tirupattur waiting in a residence to determine the sex of their fetus.
14th October 2023
By Express News Service
KRISHNAGIRI: A team of health officials from Krishnagiri and Tirupattur busted an illegal sex determination and abortion racket on Friday. Deputy Director of Health Services, K Ramesh Kumar said, “Last week Collector KM Sarayu received information that a woman underwent illegal abortion in a clinic run by a quack near Kaveripattinam.
Following this a team led by the Health, Police and Revenue officials investigated the matter.” “The team learned that Gayathri of Narimedu, who already has two girl children, through a broker, met with a scan technician last Thursday and learned that her third baby would also be a girl. The next day she went to a quack doctor Umarani from Kosamedu village near Kaveripattinam and underwent abortion. She escaped before we could arrest her.”
May 29, 2023
Kolhapur: District collector Rahul Rekhawar has instructed the health authorities to ensure that every pregnant woman is registered with the relevant authorities agencies, and that any woman undergoing an abortion after the first trimester must provide the reason for the same to the heath officials.
The move, said officials, is a bid to ensure the effective implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, given that cases of abortion have reportedly been on the rise across Kolhapur district in recent years.
The team also seized sex-determination scanning machines, Rs 73,000 in cash, and 18 cell phones.
Posted by Masrath Fatima
Published: 29th May 2023
Hyderabad: Eighteen members of a gang involved in carrying out illegal pre-natal sex determination tests as well as conducting 100 unauthorized abortions were nabbed in a joint operation in Warangal district on Monday.
The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), Task Force police, Kakatiya University Campus (KUC), and the medical and health department teamed up and arrested the 18 accused. However, two people managed to escape.
Continued: https://www.siasat.com/telangana-18-held-for-illegal-sex-determination-tests-abortion-2601469/
A strong preference for boys means many families try to find out the sex of the child illegally, and abort the foetus if it's a girl, or many born girls are unwanted and treated badly.
By Jigyasa Mishra
27 Mar, 2023
Jaipur (Rajasthan): “Bojha, Aanachhi, Kachri, Nirasha are some popular names given to girls born as a second or third child here,” says Kachri Bai, who lives in the rural outskirts of Jaipur, the capital of the western state of Rajasthan.
Bojha means burden, Aanachhi means unwanted or bad, Kachri means garbage and Nirasha means gloom. Kachri bai is the third girl in the family, after her sisters Roshni and Renu.
Mimi Lau
19 Jun, 2022
The US Supreme Court is expected to overturn the country’s landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling, which guaranteed women’s right to abortion nationwide despite widespread protests, according to a draft of a majority opinion that was leaked last month.
In China – which has one of the world’s highest recorded abortion rates – women’s reproductive rights have also historically been a contentious issue, but are seen through a very different cultural lens.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade could be a watershed for U.S. women's rights. Is the same true in Asia?
ISMI DAMAYANTI, KIRAN SHARMA and ARISA KAMEI, Nikkei staff writers
JUNE 15, 2022
"Keeping it was never an option," says Rara, a woman in her 20s from Jakarta, Indonesia.
It was 2017 and Rara (not her real name) was studying communication at a private university in the capital. After falling pregnant by her unmarried partner, who had another girlfriend at the time, she felt she could not disappoint her devout Muslim parents.
Continued: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Abortion-in-Asia-The-limits-of-choice
Appropriating the gender equality rhetoric, supporters of such bills portray the issue to be about women’s rights.
SAVITA PATEL
28 May 2022
Eleven states in USA have active abortion bans for reason of sex selection. Since 2009, almost half of the US state legislatures have considered bills to block sex-selective abortion.
In 2012 anti-sex-selective legislation was the second most proposed anti-abortion prohibition in the US.
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