Sex-selective abortion

In India, there should have been about 3million more girls in the country but due to female infanticide and sex-selective abortions those 3million girls are in a sense missing. It is obvious that female infanticide has made an effect on India’s populations. In 2011 for every 1000 boys there were 914 girls and even though the ratio is increasing because of sex-selective abortions becoming more popular, without female infanticides to begin with there would be a far smaller disparity between males…

and if the child has a physical or mental disability.(1) The reason why China rural families are allowed to have a second child if their first child is a girl because families are under pressure to have their first child to be a boy so when the sex of the baby is founded and it is girl ,they will choose to abort or give the baby away at…

preferred because males grew up to be hunters and warriors, while young females were seen as a threat because they may attract males from neighboring tribes. In cultures with high male-to-female population ratios, it is an obvious sign of selective female infanticide. Sex-ratio evidence suggests that female infanticide dates way back to Roman times. Men were more valuable as laborers and warriors. A common Roman expression was, "Everyone raises a son, including a poor man, but even a rich man…

and 1960s were starting to have children of their own. In the same year, to combat the rapidly growing population, the Chinese government imposed a policy in which couples were allowed to have only one child. This policy was enforced by forced abortions, sterilizations, and fines to families with two or more children. Confucian patriarchal tradition has been very influential to Chinese custom and has a bias against girls and women. This discrimination is based on how women were no longer…

When many people in America think of abortions they just think of the termination of a fetus, not the termination of a specific gender. This is what is happening in many of the North Eastern hemispheres, more of China and India though. What’s happening is because these two countries areas are becoming so populated that they needed to make a way so the problem doesn’t get worse. These people living in China, India, and many other countries are now restricted to only being able to have one child.…

opportunity for people to gain more knowledge due to the access of information. Instead technology has resulted in a tool of misuse in society. In a global perspective, implications of gender imbalance have developed from easy access to fetal gender selective technology, as Mara Hvistendahl implies in her essay “Missing: 163 Million Women”, “pregnant women were taking advantage of a cheap and persuasive determination tool –ultrasound-- and aborting if the fetus turned out to be female”…

Additionally, domestic violence happens very often and most of people consider it—not as a crime—but a norm of marriage. And the reasons for it? The reporters of DHS Program give us some instances: disrespecting in-laws, neglecting the house or children, arguing with husband, going out without husband’s consent, etc. and even not cooking properly—putting less or more salt—is enough to be beaten (Hindin, Kishor, and Ansara, 27). Similarly to the case of rape victims, these women cannot run to…

who wish not to conceive a child do not have access to modern contraceptive. Every minute of every day a woman dies from pregnancy complications. More than 38 million worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS. There are approximately 19 million unsafe abortions, mainly in undeveloped countries. It is sad to say that in the year 2012 women still have to fear seeking proper help for their health, whether it is pregnancy, prevention, or…

As defined by Merriam-Webster, abortion is a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus (Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary). Every religion has their own opinions on abortion; some being more strict than others. Whether it be Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Judaism they all feel that abortion is wrong, but all have their own opinions on how wrong it is to abort a fetus. Churches believe that abortions lead to issues presently and later in life, decision…

Since women were the ones who were making the most effort to invest time and care into their offspring, men were therefore caring less and women became a limited reproductive resource for men. Women had no choice but to rely on men and that is when selective criteria for choosing a mate appeared and had no choice but to choose someone whom they could trust would bring food on the table and security to her and their offspring. Moore and Cassidy think that “female reproductive success is therefore…