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Entries Tagged as 'sex selective abortion'

7-month-old girl saved by heart surgery

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

This is a heartening story from the front page, to do away with all the stories of sex-selection and missing girls in Rajasthan:
Benefactors wrote a new chapter in the history of the state infamous for female infanticides, when they saved the life of a seven-month-old baby girl. Yogita was brought back from the brink of [...]

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Tags: activism · girl child · health & well-being · reproduction and repro rights · sex selective abortion

More abortion news

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Dr Meera Patodia, a gynaecologist of the Meera Hospital in the city has been charged with conducting an abortion without the consent of the mother in connivance with her in-laws.
The victim Renu Khediya in her complaint to the Mahila police station (East) on May 5 2006 had charged her husband Bhupendra Singh and in-laws Rahuraj [...]

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Tags: dowry · girl child · globalisation · health & well-being · legal issues · reproduction and repro rights · sex and sexuality · sex selective abortion · violence against women/harrassment

Surrogacy and outdated laws

August 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A post at Desicritics highlights the recent case of the Japanese surrogate baby and how Indian laws fail to keep up with the changing demands of the times.
Although India has become the favored destination for those who are looking for surrogate mothers for their yet to be born babies as more and more Indian women [...]

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Tags: culture · legal issues · religion · reproduction and repro rights · sex selective abortion

Save the Girl Child

July 11th, 2008 · No Comments

A photo campaign / internet-driven advocacy mission by Social Geographic on Flickr.

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Journalists, beware

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

I hate articles with overly congratulatory language like this:
After centuries of living confined behind the veil, the so-called ‘weaker sex’ has finally come out in the open and conquered the world.

Just because the article is about three female executives, does not give the author the right to proclaim that Indian women have finally ‘arrived.’
If this [...]

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Tags: Renuka Chowdhury · dowry · gender roles and division of labour · media · sex selective abortion