The Problem Of Sex Selective Abortion

In certain communities in South Asia, the low status of girls has to be compensated for by the payment of a dowry by the parents of the girl to the husband at the time of marriage. This has resulted in a number of dowry crimes, including mental and physical torture, starvation, rape, and even the burning alive of women by their husbands and/or in-laws in cases where dowry payments are not met.

As the article goes on, Valenti enumerates and explains the recent violent attacks towards abortion clinics in the last few months, affirming that, in one of the attacks, “…the alleged perpetrator made a comment in its wake about ‘no more baby parts’.” The “baby parts” is the name often called by anti-choice supporters to fetal organs. This statement leaves an idea of what was the believe of the attacker towards the clinic. However, Valenti weakens her previous supporting details by claiming “The attack in Colorado, which left three people dead and nine wounded, was shocking, but it was also the predictable result of a culture that demonizes abortion…” In other words, the author is making a generalization by including a whole culture when proving

Abortion is a very controversial issue. To first start out abortion is the deliberate termination of a woman’s pregnancy, most often performed within the first 22 weeks of pregnancy. People can either be pro-choice or pro-life for abortion. Being pro-choice means that people believe that it is a woman’s choice to get an abortion if they want one. Pro-life means people believe no matter what if a woman is pregnant they should have the baby; no abortion. I intent to explain why women who get pregnant should have the right to get an abortion, if they so choose to.

The main issue that brought attention to this law was the Singh case, which demonstrates a man murdering his wife, with his first attempt of strangling her, and when that was not successful, he began to slit her throat with a Stanley knife. This degree of violence, alongside his sentencing gives the impression that the judiciary system, courts and parliament partially understood the idea that men should have the authority to violently retaliate to the words of women, which can potentially lead to death. The idea that women ask for violence through their words or actions, and the concept of ‘a crime of passion’ are very outdated, and display the values that societies held when women did not have the same amount of rights, respect and power in

In the UN article they talk about an increased in number of dowry murders especially in south Asia. Furthermore, this same point is tackled on by MacKinnon where she says that you cannot say that women are human if they are still being burned when their dowry is not enough. Consequently, the above views all enforcing the fact that women are killed when their dowry was not enough; reinforce violation against

Globally, there are over 200,000,000 missing females in this world (It’s a Girl). The number of females missing is so massive that this genocide is now dubbed the gendercide. 80 percent of the 200 million missing females are from two countries, one of them being China (Lee 20). For centuries parents have been trying to choose the sex of their children but the world had never seen anything quite like this genocide ever before. (Sandel 127). This epidemic is so astounding and so large that “For each decade in the past century, more girls were killed than the sum total of all those who died in genocides of the entire century” (Lee 19). The large sum of Chinese females missing is likely due to the traditions of Chinese culture, ultrasound

Unlike sex-selective abortion that has strong characteristics in regionalism and religion, selective abortion due to birth defect, is a more global issue, which decision-making process has been widely studied and debated (Liisanantti and Beese, 2012). In the American context, laws that require a woman to view an ultrasound image of her fetus prior to receiving an abortion, rely on the bonding potential as a means of dissuading women from their decisions to terminate (Jennifer, 2015). The routine application of prenatal sonography creates a tight connection between sonographers and pregnant women (Hsieh et al., 2009). Nonetheless, the actual role played by the sonographer in influencing decision-making remains an unexplored area in research.

For this case, the lack of capable guardianship is represented by segments of power that lack the motivation to improve conditions for women. I will attempt to compare other developing countries to India to prove that regardless of poverty levels, if there are continued dehumanization of women within culture the continuation of violence against women will be

Female infanticide has been accepted for centuries in many countries, and is more prominent in India and China than in any other countries around the world. It is illegal in India, however it is reported by Unicef that up to 50 million girls and women are “missing” in India as a result of systemic sex discrimination.

he intersection of religious belief, politics and law needs to take anti-violence stance. Along with alteration in the formal rules, what is required is the open discussions to define sexual coercion and violence within a marriage. In addition, need is to reform to the justice system while addressing the fundamental structural inequalities that promote the environment of oppression. Legal rules and practices that favour perpetrators rather than the survivors need to be questioned. This oppressive system has to be replaced by the structure that promotes women’s equality, sexual autonomy, self determination, dignity and physical integrity. While amendments to criminal laws is a significant symbolic recognition to women’s equality and right to

Before we begin to explore the different types of sex exploitation, it is vital to understand the history and the role that women play in the Indian society. In India, women are treated very differently compared to how American females are

Whereas, acid attacks increased from 47 to 200 in Bangladesh and 5000 women are murdered by their in laws per year in India as a result of Honor Killings. Honor Crimes are also witnessed in European and Western Countries’ Immigrants communities. Because many women are unable to communicate to the state authority of the honor abuses due to linguistic issues. Such list of countries includes Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and UK. For instance, UK has witnessed 20 such deaths of women in the past five years due to honor crimes. India is a country which has sever traditions that are practiced even to date these include burning brides for sake of dowry, acid attacks, rapes and gang rapes, sexual harassments, killing and raping young girls etc and these apply to both Muslim and Hindu women in their culture. No matter how modernize a women becomes, but such kind of norm against women hardly changes (Tripathi. A. & Yadav. S., 2005, pp. 63-78).

Jyoti Singh was a young, 23 year old Indian woman who had aspiring ambitions to be a doctor. Little was known that her dreams would not be come true due to what occurred on December 16, 2012. Jyoti was making her way back to her home with her friend on a typical night out when she was barbarically gang raped by six men on a bus. The gruesome details of her rape shook the entire city of New Delhi. It was reported that she was sadistically raped by a rusted rod and had her insides brutally torn from her. When the shameless culprits were interrogated for their reasons, they calmly retorted that they didn’t like the fact that she was out late at night with a male friend. If you find yourself glancing back at their reasons with an outrageous look, you are not alone. Millions of women marched the streets of Delhi to protest the issue of women safety. Furthermore many people advocated giving these men the capital punishment of death. Yet is that enough? Is hanging a bunch of young men going to eliminate the deeply entrenched culture that holds lack of respect for women? I believe the key solution of eradicating this pressing issue should not necessarily focus on punishment, but on prevention of these atrocities in the first place. Thus, this could be only accounted by increase in the quality of education in these places. I believe that education can bring women liberation from these

As a woman in the United States, rape is the ultimate nightmare, but to women in India it’s everyday life. Many rape victims’ stories just show how the police in India fail to respond adequately to crimes, especially crimes involving children or women.

Who- The girls of India need justice and they are unaware of their basic human