Arguments Against Female Infanticide

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Human Rights Issue: Infanticide
The Right to Life of Children is directly violated in infanticide. Females were and still are the more preferred targets. There have been cases against female infanticide still today. Multiple reasons as to why these kinds of cruelty against children are legal have been given. Evidence for multiple familiar places has been found.
"Infanticide is the act of deliberately causing the death of a very hound child (under 1 year old)." This was a worldwide practice performed in many societies and permitted by different cultures. Even with infanticide still being performed, it’s still considered to be an unethical crime towards children. Children weren 't necessarily considered as human beings in some cultures until they went through a ceremony. Name giving and haircut ceremonies were the very few ways children were seen as human beings and were considered safe against
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Abortion is to terminate an unwanted pregnancy before the development of the fetus begins. Waiting until the full-term delivery was the only choice troubled parents had to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Of the 3 million abortions performed in Russia each year, according to the Family Planning Association, these were wise steps to take rather than 3 million infants are victims of infanticide. Abortions have made an extreme difference in the number of infanticide cases.
The most common form of infanticide is the female infanticide. Females were generally seen as undesirable creatures in most societies and beliefs. Males were considered to have more value socially than females were. In India, among 41 percent of deaths were of newborn girls that over 1,000 women in India revealed. While in China, many parents would immediately abort the child if they knew it would be a female. Infanticide was performed at birth for parents wouldn 't have the opportunity for an

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