Female feticide

Femal feticide and abortion

Legal termination of pregnancy is ‘abortion’.
Illegal termination of ‘pregnancy’ is feticide.
Destruction of fetus is precondition of pregnancy termination.
Feticides and female feticides take place by contravention of the MTP Act.
Statutory authority to implement the provisions of MTP Act is the Chief Medical Officer.
CMOs are to ensure that feticides and female feticides do not take place by contravention of the MTP Act.
They are not doing it and hence the feticides and female feticides.
To prevent female feticides the MTP Act must be rigorously implement, supervised and monitored.
Female feticides take place in second trimester abortions i.e. between 13 to 20 weeks.
Second trimester abortions are riskier and violent methods of termination and are permitted in law only for medically assessed and certified life threatening or grave injuring causing conditions.
Second trimester abortion is not permitted for pregnancy due to contraceptive failure.
Irresponsible second trimester abortions are a grave human rights violations.
Abortion and Feticide
Therapeutic and Non-therapeutic abortions
Abortion on medical grounds and on non-medical grounds
Legal abortion and illegal or criminal abortion
Abortion as a personal (fundamental) right of woman
Dr.S.G.Kabra, SDM Hospital and IIHMR, Jaipur