Dear all
Today it was reported in Media that in maharashtra legislative assembly
yesterday there was a demand to treat female foetcide as murder. The article
is here
http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?730220
Please send your endorsements as concerned individuals, organisations and
networks by August 7th, Monday Noon to me.
*To*
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* Mr Prithviraj Chavan*
*Chief Minister*
*Maharashtra*
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*Sub- Demand of treating female foeticide as murder*
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*We are appalled at the statement made by Pankja Munde-Palve (BJP) and
Jitendra Awhad (NCP) at the legisltative assembly session on 4th august
2011 demanding that female foeticide should be treated as murder
case and culprits
should be booked for offence of murder under section 302 of Indian Penal
Code.*
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*. Making foeticide a murder charge will only increase illegal abortions and
also make access to safe abortion difficult for women, who already do not
have much choices regarding their own reproductive rights. Safe and legal
abortion is a woman’s right. Sex selection abortion amounts to
discrimination against a particular sex, in most cases, female sex. Abortion
is legal in India.*
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*The MTP Act, 1971 spells out the conditions under which it can be carried
out. Abortion for the purposes of eliminating a certain unwanted sex is
illegal. In other words, abortion for the purposes of sex selection is
illegal. It is also important to remember that those who want to use
abortion for elimination of the female foetus have to first determine the
sex of the child. Rightly this process of selection which is the first step
is being regulated and monitored through the PNDT Act. Female foeticide is
a symptom of devaluation of female lives, unless we are able to deal with
all those social and economic factors that are going into the culture of
son-preference and daughter-aversion, the child sex ratio will go on
plummeting . *
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* We strongly condemn this statement and urge the Government to stop using
anti- abortion stands for curbing down the child sex ratio. Safe and legal
abortion is a right guaranteed by MTP act. Checking sex selection requires
proper implementation of the PCPNDT act and monitoring by the government and
not by introducing such draconian measures.*
*cc- Maharshtra Health Minister, Suresh Shetty*
* cc- Pankaja Mundhe*
*cc-**Jitendra Awhad (NCP)*
* ENDORSE*
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*1. Name, Organisation/ Network,
Place*
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Kamayani Bali Mahabal Forum against sex selection FASS
Mumbai
Manisha Gupte MASUM
Pune
Leni Chaudhuri
Mumbai
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+919820749204
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*The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the
predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists
of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these
lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included
racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying
them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an
exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible
for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.*
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