Registering sex of foetus against Beti Bachao campaign: IWPC
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New Delhi: The Indian Women's Press Corps on Tuesday expressed concern over Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi's statement on registering sex of the foetus, saying it will go against the "Beti Bachao" campaign.
The Beti Bachao (Save Daughter) campaign is a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that promotes education and equal status for the girl child.
The IWPC, in a statement, expressed "concern and dismay over the reported proposal to make sex determination tests legal".
"While the government too wants in all its earnestness to address the declining sex ratio and child sex ratio, any proposal to make sex determination tests legal will be counterproductive to the Beti Bachao campaign of the government and will not address the problem at all," the statement said.
"It would give a licence and fillip to all those who believe in male child preference and to those who practice it medically and gain from it commercially," it said.
The Beti Bachao (Save Daughter) campaign is a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that promotes education and equal status for the girl child.
The IWPC, in a statement, expressed "concern and dismay over the reported proposal to make sex determination tests legal".
"While the government too wants in all its earnestness to address the declining sex ratio and child sex ratio, any proposal to make sex determination tests legal will be counterproductive to the Beti Bachao campaign of the government and will not address the problem at all," the statement said.
"It would give a licence and fillip to all those who believe in male child preference and to those who practice it medically and gain from it commercially," it said.
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