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This document discusses the issue of female foeticide in India, which is the illegal practice of aborting a fetus based solely on its sex. It notes that India has a skewed sex ratio of 933 females for every 1000 males, and some regions like Punjab and Haryana have even lower ratios as low as 800-850 females per 1000 males. The reasons cited for female foeticide include socio-cultural preferences for sons, economic pressures like dowry, and enabling access to technologies like ultrasound that allow for sex-s

Author

Shashwat Bajpai

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EN