Last year in February, Women and Child Development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested mandatory sex-determination tests and tracking of women carrying female foetuses. Additionally, they must make the sex determination scan only after 20 weeks of pregnancy — that way, it will be harmful for the mother to carry out an abortion, and the doctors will also hesitate to do it. George, Member of National Inspection and Monitoring Committee of the PCPNDT ActThis attempt is against the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic https://www.cospackage.com Techniques (PCPNDT) Act. And these threats keep coming from different directions. The only way we can guarantee increase in female sex ratio is to continue with the ongoing practice of not doing a prenatal test with a much stricter law.
Instead, women will go through severe physiological impact on them. The PAC has also said that regular monitoring of pregnant women, who have conceived female child, will also be done to prevent female foeticide. ‘This takes away the autonomy women have on their bodies’Flavia Agnes, legal scholar, feminist activist and director of Majlis BombayThis takes away the autonomy women have on their bodies and puts them under unnecessary surveillance.‘No woman is going to be benefited by this move’Dr Sabu M. While this recommendation has garnered backlash, it also violates the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act — acts that are fundamental rights of women.‘The threats to the female foetus exist in the minds of people’Shashi Deshpande, Award winning Indian authorI don’t know how they’re going to do it — it’s completely impractical!
The threats to the female foetus exist in the minds of people, including parents in society because they don’t want a girl child. ‘Allowing people to take prenatal sex determination will increase the problem’Dr Shobha Raghuveera, Consultant GynecologistAllowing people to take prenatal sex determination will increase the problem and not solve it. Although, in the longer run, only education, more empowerment for girls would change the mindset of the people towards the issue. Government should not go ahead with the implementation. The way this recommendation sounds is that they aren’t bothered about the health of the woman at all — instead they only care only womb. But there must be complete transparency in the procedure. Having a child is mostly not a woman’s decision (in India), but the whole family is involved and has a strong opinion about the same.
Instead, women will go through severe physiological impact on them. The PAC has also said that regular monitoring of pregnant women, who have conceived female child, will also be done to prevent female foeticide. ‘This takes away the autonomy women have on their bodies’Flavia Agnes, legal scholar, feminist activist and director of Majlis BombayThis takes away the autonomy women have on their bodies and puts them under unnecessary surveillance.‘No woman is going to be benefited by this move’Dr Sabu M. While this recommendation has garnered backlash, it also violates the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act and the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act — acts that are fundamental rights of women.‘The threats to the female foetus exist in the minds of people’Shashi Deshpande, Award winning Indian authorI don’t know how they’re going to do it — it’s completely impractical!
The threats to the female foetus exist in the minds of people, including parents in society because they don’t want a girl child. ‘Allowing people to take prenatal sex determination will increase the problem’Dr Shobha Raghuveera, Consultant GynecologistAllowing people to take prenatal sex determination will increase the problem and not solve it. Although, in the longer run, only education, more empowerment for girls would change the mindset of the people towards the issue. Government should not go ahead with the implementation. The way this recommendation sounds is that they aren’t bothered about the health of the woman at all — instead they only care only womb. But there must be complete transparency in the procedure. Having a child is mostly not a woman’s decision (in India), but the whole family is involved and has a strong opinion about the same.
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