The document discusses the severe issue of female foeticide in India, highlighting its definition, causes, and societal impacts, including the skewed gender ratio and rising violence against women. It outlines various legislative measures and government initiatives aimed at eradicating this practice, such as the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' scheme. The conclusion calls for collective action to address the moral and legal injustices associated with female foeticide to prevent dire societal consequences.

2. CONTENT
Introduction
Definition
Factors leading to female foeticide
Census data
Impacts of female foeoticide
Laws for female foeticide
Eradication of female foeticide – HOW??? &
WHY???
Conclusion
References

3. Women who constitute half a human population
have been discriminated, harassed and exploited
irrespective of the country to which they belong,
unmindful of the religion which they profess and
oblivious of the timeframe in which they live.
Everywhere women are confronted with many
challenges. Female foeticide is perhaps one of the
worst forms of violence against women where a
woman is denied her most basic and
fundamental right i.e. “the right to life”.

4. • The phenomenon of female foeticide in India
is not new, where female embryos or foetuses
are selectively eliminated after pre-natal sex
determination, thus eliminating girl child even
before they are born. As a result of selective
abortion, between 35 and 40 million girls and
women are missing from the Indian
population.

5. Foeticide or feticide is an act that causes the
death of a foetus. In a legal context, it refers to
the deliberate or incidental killing of a foetus
due to a criminal human act, such as a blow to
the abdomen of a pregnant woman.
As a medical term, foeticide is destruction of a
foetus.

6. Factors Leading To Female
Foeticide

7. A) Economic Factors:
• There is gender based wage level. For the
same work females are paid less
remuneration.
• In most cases women enter in the domestic
non-paid services which a patriarchal society
gives little or no value at all, so they are
regarded as liability than assets.

8. Cont....
B) Dowry:
• Brides are thought as commodities and the
pre marriage and marriage have been
described as ‘consumption oriented
reproductive journey’.
• When the reproductive practices make
daughters into such economic burden, the
threat of having to amass dowry is motive
enough to dispose female commodities.

10. Cont...
C) Socio-ritual factors:
• females are vulnerable to brutalities of the
male in the forms of physical, mental and
sexual assaults and traumas in the patriarchal
societal structure of India.
• Again for the funeral ceremonies of the
parents, presence of a son is a must.

11. Cont…
• According to Manu, A man cannot attain
moksha (redemption) unless he has a son to
light his funeral pyre.
• In old age the sons will care for them
believably.
• These socio-rituals factors including illiteracy
and orthodox society norms lead to crave for a
male baby, discarding the females one after
another.

12. Cont....
c) Technological factors:
• Female foeticide is a latest trend of long
established gender bias. We are civilized with
time and our killing female babes have also
been civilized.
• The presence of low-cost technologies like
ultrasound, have led to sex-based abortion of
female foetuses, and an increasingly smaller
percentage of girls born each year

13. Cont....
d) Population Policy:
• Indian family planning policies promote a two-
child family and health workers say this often
leads to abortion of female foetuses in efforts
to have a "complete family" with at least one
son.

15. • Rising India has left the girl child behind. The
country may be marching shoulder to shoulder
with the world's top economies, scripting a
remarkable growth story.
• But its 1.21 billion-strong population has still to
shake off its bias against the girl child. Often killed
in the womb, the number of girls per 1,000 boys
in the 0-6 age band, or the child sex ratio as it is
called, has dipped to its lowest levels since
Independence to 914.

16. Cont...
• The figure has dropped to 866 in Delhi and 899
in Uttar Pradesh.
• Haryana and Punjab remain at the bottom of
the heap with child sex ratios of 830 and 846
respectively.
• Jhajjar and Mahendragarh districts of Haryana,
infamous for female foeticide, have the lowest
child sex ratios at 774 and 778 respectively.
• In Rajasthan, the figure has whittled down
from 909 in 2001 to 883 in 2011

18. Impact of female foeticide on
society

19. Female/Women Trafficking
• The steep decline in the number of girls makes
them scarce for the teaming number of males
eligible for marriage.
• As a solution to this issue, illegal trafficking of
women has become commonplace in many
regions.
• This is a graver matter than the ideology of
mail order brides.

20. Child marriage
• Women, often young girls who’ve just crossed
the threshold of puberty, are compelled to
marry for a price fixed by the groom to be.
• They are usually bought in from neighboring
areas, where the number of girls might not be
as miniscule as the host region.
• Child marriages become a rage and child
pregnancies, a devastating consequence.

21. Increase in Rape and Assault
• Once women become an endangered species, it
is only a matter of time before the instances of
rape, assault and violence become widespread.
• In the backdrop of fewer available females, the
surviving ones faced with the reality of handling a
society driven by a testosterone high.
• The legal system may offer protection, but as is
the situation today, many cases might not even
surface for fear of isolation and humiliation on
the girl’s part.

22. Population Decline
• With no mothers or wombs to bear any child
(male or female), there would be fewer births,
leading to a decline in the country’s population.
• Though a control in the demographic statistics is
currently the goal of many nations like China and
India, a total wipe-out of one sex is not the way
to achieve this target.
• Science would then have to look up solutions to
do away with the swarming number of men,
should such a worst case scenario happen.

23. STOPPING THE EVIL

24. LAWS FOR FEMALE FOETICIDE
•Medical termination of pregnancy Act in 1971
This act make abortion legal in most of the states,
but specified legally acceptable reasons for
abortion such as medical risk to mother or rape.
But after its misuse govt. passed new act.

25. Cont…..
• Pre-natal diagnostic techniques Act 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.

26. Convergence with integrated child
development program
• Train ICDS staff to counsel pregnant woman
and her spouse to prevent infanticide.
• Train ICDS staff to restore girl babies from
cradle to her own parents.
• Child development program officer and staff
to be commended for restoring girl child to
parents.

27. Sign in an Indian hospital stating that prenatal
sex determination is a crime.

28. Women's safety laws
• Married Women's Property Act, 1874
• Immoral Traffic (prevention) Act, 1956
• Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
• Commission of Sati(Prevention) Act, 1987
• Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration Act, 1886
• Minimum Wages Act, 1948
• Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act,
2012
• Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929

29. Cont…..
• Maternity Benefit Act,1861
• National Commission for Women Act, 1990
• Protection of Women from Domestic Violence
Act, 2005
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place
(Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act,
2013
• Hindu Widows Remarriage Act, 1856

30. Eradication of female foeticide
HOW?????????
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana
बेटी बचाओ, बेटी पढाओ
Country India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Ministry A joint initiative of MoWCD,
MoHFW and MoHRD
Launched 22 January 2015; 20 months
ago (2015-01-22)

31. Cont….
• Speaking on the occasion of
International Day of the Girl
Child, Prime Minister Modi, called
for the eradication of female
foeticide and invited suggestions
from the citizens of India on "Beti
Bachao, Beti Padhao" on the
MyGov.in portal.
• August 2016, Olympics 2016
bronze medalist Sakshi Malik was
made brand ambassador of the
'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao'
initiative in Haryana

32. Cont….
• Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao ( बेटी बचाओ, बेटी
पढाओ, Save girl child, educate girl child) is a
Government of India scheme that aims to
generate awareness and improve the efficiency of
welfare services meant for women.
• The scheme was launched with an initial corpus
of 100 crore (US$15 million).
• The Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) Scheme was
introduced in October, 2014 to address the issue
of declining child sex ratio (CSR).

34. • Episode 1: Daughters
are precious;--
• Air Date:- 6 May 2012
• The first episode
focused on the issue of
female foeticide in
INDIA. The show
began with some
stories of mothers who
struggled to give birth
to their girl child.
Reality show – “SATYAMEV JAYATE”

35. Philanthropist
Priyanka Chopra supports
various causes related to the
girl child through her
foundation "The Priyanka
Chopra Foundation for Health
and Education", which works
towards providing support to
unprivileged children across
the country in the areas of
Education and Health.

36. Why?????
Stop Female foeticide .....................
• Stop the social evils like prostitution, female
trafficking, rape assaults etc.
• Maintain the human species
• Balance the population.
• Promote quality living and better standard of
living of all.
• Make world a better place to live….

37. THERE IS A WOMEN AT THE BEGINNING OF ALL GREAT
THINGS

39. Conclusion
Female foeticide is the worst evil residing in
society these days. If we will not came forward
to stop the evil it is certainly going to have the
severe consequences. The time had come to
came forward and take a pledge to stop the
female foeticide and infanticide as it is both
illegal and immoral. Imagine a society without
females and girls. These days with proper
education and training girls can be at far more
better place than today.

40. REFRENCES
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_foeticid
e_in_India
• www.unicef.in/PressReleases/227/Female-
foeticide-in-India
• www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20879612