Compulsory Sex Determination idea of Maneka Gandhi finds doctors approval
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With Union Minister Maneka Gandhi indicating that sex determination tests should be made compulsory as a means to curb female foeticide, fresh rounds of debate have begun on the mandate of PC-PNDT Act.
An act that was designed to prohibit the determination of sex of the foetus and hence put a stop to female foeticide in the country, the implementation of PC-PNDT act has been quite a failure in the face of the growing social evil in the country. Many doctors opine that rather than leading to any reduction in the instances of female foeticide, the act has become a means/tool for harassment of doctors and medical professionals in the country.
"In my personal view, the woman should be compulsorily told that whether it is a boy or girl child whom she is going to give birth. It should be registered to be able to check whether they have given the births or not," the minister for Women and Child Development said. "We cannot keep catching people doing (illegal) ultrasound," she said, adding that arrest of such people was not a permanent solution.
An act that was designed to prohibit the determination of sex of the foetus and hence put a stop to female foeticide in the country, the implementation of PC-PNDT act has been quite a failure in the face of the growing social evil in the country. Many doctors opine that rather than leading to any reduction in the instances of female foeticide, the act has become a means/tool for harassment of doctors and medical professionals in the country.
"In my personal view, the woman should be compulsorily told that whether it is a boy or girl child whom she is going to give birth. It should be registered to be able to check whether they have given the births or not," the minister for Women and Child Development said. "We cannot keep catching people doing (illegal) ultrasound," she said, adding that arrest of such people was not a permanent solution.
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