Infanticide has been practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity. It has been practiced from hunter gatherers to modern civilization‚ including our own ancestors. When pregnant it is understandable that couples wish for either a boy or a girl but‚ it is another thing if their wish of having either a boy or a girl is guaranteed to come true. Those couples who wish to have a son and has one child turns out to be a girl seem to be in a most painful dilemma. “Cultural norms
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Infanticide is a Terminal Abortion Procedure Infanticide has recently come to be regarded as a biologically significant phenomenon. The fact that infanticide is considered an abhorrent practice in our own society is only a part of the reason why researchers for so long failed to realize how widespread infanticide is in the natural world. Early field reports of infanticide say that it used to be happened among birds‚ langur monkeys and lions were sketchy. Different kind of propositions say that
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Infanticide MEANING: Infanticide is a word that comes from the Latin language‚ in-fans‚ meaning unable to speak‚ which it is commonly used as a more formal word for baby and cide child murder‚ (Webster‚ 2004.) Put it together and it translates to one who kills an infant. The full meaning is to kill the infant before or after birth‚ with the consent of the parent‚ family‚ or community‚ (CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA‚ Infanticide‚ 2004) According to the French Criminal Code the word is limited to the murder
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stunned by the old man’s speech.He told them that they had never allowed any female child to live in that village and they used to drown them in the village pond which now holds the curse of over thousand baby girls drowned alive.When Aakansha’s money conceived and gave birth to twin baby girls the villagers were prepared for the custom to take place as Aakansha’s father had also been part of that evil practise when a female child was born in other families.So to escape the murder of 2 innocent babies
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Infanticide and Sex Selection Past‚ Present‚ and Future James C. Gill University of Missouri- St. Louis July 31‚ 2011 Abstract Infanticide is the killing of unwanted babies. It was common throughout the Roman Empire and many countries in the ancient world. In those times infanticide was accepted because it was a way limiting family size that was safe for the mother (“Infanticide common in Roman empire” 2011). More recently sex selection has been a problem in many
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against child-murder by all major religions‚ female infanticide has been for centuries a prominent and socially acceptable event‚ notably in one of the most populous countries in this world‚ India. Even today‚ the extent of the problem is measured in alarming proportions all around the globe: "at least 60 million females in Asia are missing and feared dead‚ victims of nothing more than their sex. Worldwide‚ research suggests‚ the number of missing females may top 100 million." The data is more astounding
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INTRODUCTION: Day by day women population as compared to men is decreasing. If the current trend continues‚ the day is not far when men will find difficult to find partners for marriage. Recently‚ a movie “Matribhumi’ presented the worst consequence of decreasing women population. The only reason for decreasing women population is killing of girl foetus before birth. Owing to the advancement of science and technology and subsequent development of ultrasonic technique‚ it is very easy to know
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Michael Tooley’s article‚ "Abortion and Infanticide" raised some points about the morality of abortion. He discussed the conservatives’ ethical objection against abortion which states that fetuses and infants have a right to life. The conservatives believe that early abortion is immoral. In his article‚ he made a case against the conservative position on abortion. His case boils down to two claims: (i) We should accept that early abortion is immoral only if we accept the "potentiality principle"
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FEMALE FOETICIDE INTRODUCTION: Contemporary Indian society professes a profound faith in every individual’s “right to life and dignity”. The rights relating to the weaker & vulnerable sections of Indian society especially women‚ and more specially the girl child were violated. The twin social evils of female foeticide & female infanticide were the main causes.Violence against women exists in various forms‚ in all societies‚ the world over. In 1996 the world health assembly endorsed the fact that
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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 selective abortion of female fetuses--is killing upwards of one million females in India annually with far-ranging and tragic consequences. In some areas‚ the sex ratio of females to males has dropped to less than 8000:1000. Females not only face inequality in this culture‚ they are even denied the right to be born
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