This ppt inhibits people to stop killing foetus at the time of fertilisation process.

1. POORNA PRAJNA PUBLIC
SCHOOL
Subject-Science Club
Presented by :
1. Mamta Bera
2. Raunak Prakash
3. Nikhil Patel

2. Index
1. Acknowledgement.
2. Introduction.
3. What is Foeticide?
4. Reasons for Female Foeticide.
5. Female Foeticide in India.
6. Child sex ratio and foeticides by
states of India.
7. Laws and Regulation.
8. Bibliography.

3. Acknowledgement
We would like to express our special thanks
of gratitude to our teacher(……….)as well as
our Principal Sir who gave to us the golden
opportunity to do this wonderful project on
the topic – FOETICIDE which also helped us
in doing a lot of research and we came to
know about so many new things we really
thankful to them.

4. FEMALE
FOETICIDE

6. What is foeticide?
Ans. The killing of fetus especially
illegal abortion is called foeticide.
This is also called aborticide.

7. Reasons for female foeticide
 Various theories have been proposed as
possible
reasons for sex-selective abortion.
 Some demographers question whether sex-
selective abortion or infanticide claims are
accurate, because underreporting of female
births may also explain high sex-ratios
 Natural reasons may also explain some of the
abnormal sex ratios.

8. Female foeticide in India
 The practice of female foeticide in India, causing
the death of the foetus in the womb because of
the gender, has resulted in an all- time high birth
sex ratio in India, according to the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare.
 The pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Techniques Act (PCPNDT) of 1994 criminalized
prenatal sex screening and female foeticide
making it illegal in India to determine or disclose
sex of the foetus to anyone.

10. Origin
 Female foeticide has been linked to the arrival, in the
early 1990s, of affordable ultrasound technology and its
widespread adoption in India. Obstetric
ultrasonography, either transvaginally or
transabdominally, checks for various markers of fetal
sex. It can be performed at or after week 12 of
pregnancy. At this point, 3⁄4 of fetal sexes can be
correctly determined, according to a 2001
study.Accuracy for males is approximately 50% and for
females almost 100%. When performed after week 13
of pregnancy, ultrasonography gives an accurate result
in almost 100% of cases.
 Availability
 Ultrasound technology arrived in China and India in
1979, but its expansion was slower in India. Ultrasound
sex discernment technologies were first introduced in
major cities of India in 1980s, its use expanded in
India's urban regions in 1990s, and became widespread
in 2000s

11. Magnitude estimates for female foeticide
 Estimates for female foeticide vary by
scholar. One group estimates more
than 10 million female foetuses may
have been illegally aborted in India
since 1990s, and 500,000 girls were
being lost annually due to female
foeticide.Mac Pherson estimates that
100,000 abortions every year continue
to be performed in India solely
because the fetus is female.

12. Child sex ratio and foeticide by
states of India
 The child sex ratio in India shows a regional
pattern.
 India’s 2011census found that all eastern and
southern states of India had a child sex ratio
between 103 to 107, typically considered as the
“natural ratio”.
 The highest sex ratios were observed in Imdia’s
northern and northwestern states-
Haryana(120), Punjab(118) and Jammu and
Kashmir(116).

13. Child Sex ratio

14. SAVE FEMALE FOETICIDE

15. Laws and
regulations

16. India passed its first abortion-related law, the so-
called Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971,
making abortion legal in most states, but specified
legally acceptable reasons for abortion such as
medical risk to mother and rape. The law also
established physicians who can legally provide the
procedure and the facilities where abortions can be
performed, but did not anticipate female foeticide
based on technology advances. With increasing
availability of sex screening technologies in India
through the 1980s in urban India, and claims of its
misuse, the Government of India passed thePre-natal
Diagnostic Techniques Act (PNDT)in 1994. This law
was further amended into the Pre-Conception and
Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and
Prevention of Misuse) (PCPNDT) Act in 2004 to deter
and punish prenatal sex screening and female
foeticide. However, there are concerns that PCPNDT
Act has been poorly enforced by authorities.

17. Bibliography
NCERT text book Science
Class-10th
www.wikipedia.org
www.google.co.in
www.excellup.com
www.yahoo.com