Female Foeticide: Violence in the womb

Abstract

Everywhere women are confronted with many challenges .Crime against women is becoming a most common and serious concern in our modern society .Traditional societies in India have elaborate folk techniques for conceiving sons while couples in industrialized countries may use a variety of in-vivo pri-conceptual techniques to influence the sex of the conception .Female foeticide is perhaps one of the worst forms of violence against women .This problem is not new, where girl embryo are selectively eliminated after sex determination during early stage of pregnancy. But also girl child are eliminated after their birth .The United Nation has expressed serious concern about this situation. This paper brings attention on female foeticide and its violence happening in women’s womb. Skewed sex ratio , women trafficking ,increase in rape and assault and population decline are the serious challenges in front of us as the result of female foeticide. This paper also tries to explore the possible options to counter this critical medico-social problem.