Tuesday 24 May 2011

More girls being aborted selectively


Selective abortion of girls in India prevented about 4.2 to 12.1 million girls from being born between 1980 and 2010, with the largest number of girls being aborted in the 1990s decade, a latest survey has shown.

Abortion of Girls
Selective abortion of girls, especially for pregnancies after a first born girl, has increased substantially in India. Most of India's population now live in States where selective abortion is common, says the study "Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011'' published in the latest edition of The Lancet.

The 2011 census has revealed about there were 7.1 million fewer girls than boys aged 0-6 years, a substantial increase in the gap of 6 million fewer girls recorded in the 2001 census and 4.2 million fewer girls recorded in the 1991 census. These declines in girl to boy ratios are larger in better-educated and in richer households than in illiterate and poorer households, and now imply that 90 per cent people in India live in States where selective abortion of girls is common.

In the study, the authors analysed census data to determine absolute numbers of selective abortions and examined over 250,000 births from national surveys to estimate differences in the girl-boy ratio for second births in families in which the first born child had been a girl. The Lancet article is written by Prof. Prabhat Jha, Centre for Global Health Research, Dalla Lala School of Public Health, University of [...]



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