3 Crore Female Foetuses Killed in India since Independence

More shocking is the fact that the sinful crime of female foeticide is not just prevalent in rural areas where social discrimination against women, lack of proper education etc. can be considered as reasons behind such acts, but also the modern, so-called ‘educated’ people living in urban areas and metropolitan cities who are a step ahead in killing the girl child in the womb.

Narrow-minded people murder their unborn daughters for the fear of giving dowry. The girl child is considered a burden. They want a boy child to take their family’s name forward and earn bread for their family. This has also led to other crimes like human trafficking, rape, sexual harassment, molestation, verbal abuse, torture and exploitation.

There is an urgent need of undoing the traditional wrongs of a gendered society. The unbalanced sex ratio has to find a balance in order to maintain the progress of the country.

302 from Abishek.