Usman Sheikh, Ashutosh Lohiya, Prashant Yadav and Yogesh D. Niturkar
Posters: Altern Integ Med
Female feticide is the selective abortion or elimination of the girl child in the womb itself, done deliberately by the mother, after the detection of the child?s gender through medical means. This is usually done under familial pressure from the husband or the in-laws or even the woman?s parents. Unplanned pregnancy is generally the reason behind abortion. However, female feticide is a far more heinous sin than the age old practice of killing an unwanted child, even before it?s born. Sadly, a majority of female feticide cases involve an enthusiastic participation of women, both old and young. According to the statistics, nearly 10 million female fetuses have been aborted in the country over the past two decades. Everyone wants a mother, sister, wife & a friend but why many don?t want to have a female child? As a Homoeopathic medical student can we help in spreading awareness about this heinous act and prevent detection as well as killing of female fetus in the womb? What kind of challenges we have to stop female feticide?
Usman Sheikh, Ashutosh Lohiya, Prashant Yadav are III year BHMS students from V.K. Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Latur, under Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik.
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