The list experiment: An approach to measuring stigmatized behaviours related to sex-selective abortion

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Emily Treleaven ◽  
Toan Ngoc Pham ◽  
Anh Duy Nguyen ◽  
Nadia Diamond-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
List Experiment

scholarly journals PRECONCEPTION AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES ACT 1994 AND ITS MAIN ROLE TO CURB SEX DETERMINATION AND SEX SELECTION

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Vaishali Waghmare ◽  
Hema Hema
Keyword(s):  
Sex Determination ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Prenatal Diagnostic ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion

India has a male dominated culture where women are treated like a commodity and slave. Our Indian society gives preference only to the Son not to female because of which girls' child is not heartily welcomed and discrimination against girl child still prevails. Sex selective abortion is one of major issue in recent era in relation to violence against women under which the Ultrasonography machine plays an important role of sex detection. Main  cause for sex selection are Patriarchal system, Dowry system, only son who can performs the last rites, lineage and inheritance runs through the male line, the Small family norms , PARAYADHAN, easy access to the Medical facilities and Technology for Sex Selective Abortion. Low literacy rate, low socio-economic condition of women etc. Sex selection and sex determination causes violence, impact on equilibrium of nature, Polyandry, Imbalance between Male-Female populations etc Maharashtra was first State to enact Maharashtra regulation of use of PNDT Act in 1987.  The PNDT Act was passed in 1994 Hon. Supreme Court passed an Interim judgment in 2001 for more strict implementation of Act based on PIL filed by CEHAT, MASUM and AdvSabu George PNDT Act amended in 2003 to Pre conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Technique Act (PC-PNDT)  Applicable to all Govt/NGO/Private/corporate establishments . Main purpose of Act is to ban the use of sex selection techniques before and after conception and prevent the misuse of prenatal diagnostic techniques for sex selective abortion. Every offence under this Act is cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable (Sec 27). Act has made it mandatory to maintain records of every scan done. (Section 29 and Rule 9) Section 5 and Rule 10 (1A).Implementing Authority under the Act is Appropriate Authority (Section 17) has power to search, seize and seal clinics (Section 30). The Act prohibited  communication of sex of the foetus by words, signs or in any other manner (Section 5) , advertising sex determination test in any form are liable for punishment (Section 22) .Offence under this Act punishable with imprisonment of years which extend to 5 years and fine up to 10,000 which extend up to 50,000.

IS SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION MORALLY JUSTIFIED AND SHOULD IT BE PROHIBITED?

Bioethics ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 520-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
WENDY ROGERS ◽  
ANGELA BALLANTYNE ◽  
HEATHER DRAPER
Keyword(s):  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion

14. Abortion

Medical Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 735-791
Author(s):  
Emily Jackson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Moral Legitimacy ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Academic Debate

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter examines the law on abortion, beginning with a survey of the ongoing debate over the moral legitimacy of abortion. It then examines the current legal position, and considers how the Abortion Act 1967, as amended, works in practice. It looks at recent controversies over sex-selective abortion and considers the prospects for law reform. Finally, the chapter looks briefly at the regulation of abortion in Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the United States.

scholarly journals Pregnancy Centers: A Clear Purpose of Medicine with Coherent Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-340
Author(s):  
Christopher Lisanti ◽  
Sandy Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Elective Abortion ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Medicine Today ◽  
Subjective View ◽  
Physician Patient ◽  
The Relationship

What is the purpose of medicine? This fundamental question is at the heart of the criticisms faced by pregnancy centers (PCs) and accusations that they are unethical. PCs maintain that the purpose of medicine is to treat and prevent disease. Because pregnancy is not a disease, PCs do not advocate for elective abortion or contraceptives. PCs view the function of values (e.g., autonomy) as constraints upon physicians that prevent physical and ethical harms. Their critics either embrace an ill-defined purpose of medicine such as promoting well-being or conflate the value of autonomy with medicine’s purpose. This leads to a subjective view of medicine and changes the relationship from physician–patient to vendor–customer. This subjective nature along with its attendant vendor–customer relationship cannot solve for current or future ethical problems such as sex-selective abortion and its fatal discrimination against females. Summary: Pregnancy Centers embrace a traditional “treat and prevent disease” purpose of medicine.  This clear and objective purpose logically leads to not advocating for abortion or contraceptives.  The authors outline a coherent ethical structure outlining the role values play in regards to this purpose. This is contrasted with the current ill-defined purpose within medicine today that has led to an inconsistent change of the physician-patient relationship to a vendor-customer one, ethical incoherence, and several attendant harms, most notably sex-selective abortion.

Towards Decriminalization? New Battlegrounds in Abortion Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-176
Author(s):  
Fran Amery
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Severe Disability ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
Abortion Debate ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Abortion Politics ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on the newest battlegrounds in the UK abortion debate. This includes growing calls for decriminalisation, involving the repeal of sections of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, and the increasing purchase these are finding inside Parliament and among the medical profession. It also includes new debates about sex-selective abortion and abortion in the cases of severe disability, and the need for the pro-choice movement to organise horizontally to address the needs of all women. It ends with an assessment of the future prospects of both the movement for decriminalisation, and the movement for more restrictive abortion law.

scholarly journals Determinants of imbalanced sex ratio at birth in Nepal: evidence from secondary analysis of a large hospital-based study and nationally-representative survey data

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e023021
Author(s):  
Elina Pradhan ◽  
Erin Pearson ◽  
Mahesh Puri ◽  
Manju Maharjan ◽  
Dev Chandra Maharjan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Large Hospital ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Second Child ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Randomised Controlled

ObjectivesTo quantify sex ratios at births (SRBs) in hospital deliveries in Nepal, and understand the socio-demographic correlates of skewed SRB. Skewed SRBs in hospitals could be explained by sex selective abortion, and/or by decision to have a son delivered in a hospital—increased in -utero investments for male fetus. We use data on ultrasound use to quantify links between prenatal knowledge of sex, parity and skewed SRBs.DesignSecondary analysis of: (1) de-identified data from a randomised controlled trial, and (2) 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS).SettingNepal.Participants(1) 75 428 women who gave birth in study hospitals, (2) NDHS: 12 674 women aged 15–49 years.Outcome measuresSRB, and conditional SRB of a second child given first born male or female were calculated.ResultsUsing data from 75 428 women who gave birth in six tertiary hospitals in Nepal between September 2015 and March 2017, we report skewed SRBs in these hospitals, with some hospitals registering deliveries of 121 male births per 100 female births. We find that a nationally representative survey (2011 NDHS) reveals no difference in the number of hospital delivery of male and female babies. Additionally, we find that: (1) estimated SRB of second-order births conditional on the first being a girl is significantly higher than the biological SRB in our study and (2) multiparous women are more likely to have prenatal knowledge of the sex of their fetus and to have male births than primiparous women with the differences increasing with increasing levels of education.ConclusionsOur analysis supports sex-selective abortion as the dominant cause of skewed SRBs in study hospitals. Comprehensive national policies that not only plan and enforce regulations against gender-biased abortions and, but also ameliorate the marginalised status of women in Nepal are urgently required to change this alarming manifestation of son preference.Trial registration numberNCT02718222.

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