According to the Independent, selective abortion was banned in India in 1994, but in practice, it still exists, especially in rural villages.
According to the announcement by representatives of the Uttarakhand region, girl birth rates are alarmingly low, as the parents opt for abortion as soon as the fetus appears to be a girl.
In India, abortion by sex preference was banned in 1994. However, the remnants of this practice are still present in the rural villages of India because boys are seen as an obligation to maintain the house and girls.
According to the latest census in 2011, there were 943 women to every 1,000 men in India.
63 million women “missing”
Last year, according to an Indian government announcement, 63 million women were “missing” in the population because the families preferred boys.
According to India’s patriarchal social order, boys are seen as future breadwinners and carers, who have to take care of their parents.
Last year, while the police searched for the corpse of a woman who had had an illegal abortion, they found 19 female fetuses dumped near a hospital in Maharashtra state.
