Context: Contraceptive prevalence in Bangladesh has been increasing, but for the last 6-7
years the total fertility rate has remained at 3.3 lifetime births per woman. Son preference is …

Women are murdered all over the world. But in India a most brutal form of killing females
takes place regularly, even before they have the opportunity to be born. Female feticide-the …

India has witnessed a decline in sex ratio in the past few decades. A hospital-based cross-
sectional study was carried out to find out the attitude toward gender preference and …

The medical procedure of 'feticide'has been used in clinical practice since the early 1990s in
the UK. The procedure constitutes a sensitive aspect of late termination of pregnancy (TOP) …

The preference for a son continues to be a prevalent norm in the traditional Indian
household. This is evident from the declining sex ratio which has dropped to alarming levels …

Background India continues to have unsafe abortions despite progressive legislation since
the past five decades facilitating ease of access to abortion services. This study describes …

Written by an author who is both a paediatrician and a philosopher, this is the first book that
covers comprehensively the difficult ethical issues involved in prevention of intellectual …

Background. A declining sex ratio at birth has been documented during censuses in India.
The decline is especially more in the northern states of Haryana and Punjab. We attempted …

Although sex selective abortion is a fairly recent phenomena, its roots can be traced back to
the age old practice of female infanticide. Infanticide was initially documented by British …

Objectives: The present study was conducted to assess the awareness and attitude
regarding prenatal sex determination and Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic …