*Dear all*
*
*
*thank you for your support more than 100 signatures, if anyone wants to
endorse, please send me by tom morning. The letter will be sent by noon
tommorrow.*
*
*
*in solidarity*
*
*
*kamayani*
*Dilip DattatrayaWalse-Patil*
*The speaker , *
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Mumbai
*Sub: Rejection of demand to treat "female foeticide" as murder*
* *
* **We are appalled at the statement made by Pankja Munde-Palve (BJP) and
Jitendra Awhad (NCP) at the legislative assembly session on 4th august
2011 demanding that female foeticide should be treated as murder and
culprits should be booked for offence of murder under section 302 of Indian
Penal Code.*
* *
*First of all, abortion should not be referred to as "foeticide", which has
anti-abortion implications that we reject, for we believe that all women
have the right to decide when and whether to bear and give birth to
children. M**aking sex selective abortions (wrongly referred to as "female
foeticide"), a murder charge will only increase illegal abortions and also
make access to safe abortion difficult for women, who already do not have
many choices regarding their own reproductive rights. Safe and legal
abortion is a woman’s right. Abortion is legal in India. The MTP Act, 1971
spells out the conditions under which it can be carried out.*
Sex selective* abortion however, amounts to discrimination against a
particular sex, in most cases, the female sex.* *Sex selection in favour of
the boy child is a symptom of devaluation of female lives.** *
* *
*It is 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, it is this process of pre-natal selection which is a crime,
and it is being regulated and monitored through the PCPNDT Act. *
* *
*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 . But the solution is not to curb the
legal right to abortion. Rather the PCPNDT Act should be enforced, and
clinics that offer prenatal sex testing weeded out.*
*We strongly condemn the demand to make abortion under any circumstances a
crime, and urge the Government to stop using anti- abortion stands for
curbing the plummeting child sex ratio. *
* *
*Checking pre-natal sex selection requires the proper implementation of the
PCPNDT act and monitoring of sex-selective procedures by the government, and
cannot be achieved by introducing such draconian measures that curb women's
right to safe and legal abortion.*
* *
* cc- Governor of Maharashtra ,K. Shankarnarayan *
*cc, Cm Maharahstra*
*cc- Health Minister*
* ENDORSE*
* *
*1. Name, Organisation/ Network,
Place*
* *
1. Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal Forum against sex selection FASS
Mumbai
2. Manisha Gupte MASUM
Pune
3. Leni Chudhuri Forum against sex selection FASS
Mumbai
4. Prof.Mohan Rao, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
5. Ravi Duggal Health activist
Mumbai
6. Sandeep samwad Workers charteres Movement
New Delhi
7. Xavier Dias Editor Khan Kaneej aur Adhikar
Goa
8. Vinay Kulkarni Prayas Health Group
Pune
9. Dilnaz Boga Journalist
Mumbai
10. Sandeep Singh Fulm Editor
Mumbai
11. Harsh Kapoor South Asia Citizens Web
New Delhi
12. Sukla Sen EKTA (Committee for Communal
Amity), Mumbai
13. Pramod Nigudkar Forum against sex selection FASS
Mumbai
14. Radha Holla Campaign Coordinator IBFAN Asia/BPNI
New Delhi
15. Manjula Jagatramka Forum against sex selection FASS
MUMBAI
16. Dhruv Mankad Health Activist
Nasik
17. Shilpa adekar Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
Mumbai
18. Ram Adsule Co Convenor Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
Mumbai
19. Dr Chandrima Chatterji Health Researcher
Mumbai
20. Dr Arif Ali syed Peace Activist
Mumbai
21. Nisreen Ibrahim Rangoonwala Foundation Trust
Mumbai
22. Vijayanti Bagwe Committed Communities Development
Trust Mumbai
23. Shelley Saha Sinha CHSJ
New Delhi
24. Ms. Vasudha Mohanka Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Mumbai
25. Rohini Hensman, writer and human rights activist
Mumbai
26. Lakshmi Menon, Forum Against Sex Selection, FASS
Mumbai
27. *Dr Aisha Gill, Criminologist,
London,UK*
28. *Anuradha *
29. *Ponni arasu Feminist
Chennai*
30. *Mary E john *Director,Centre for Women's Development Studies
(CWDS), New Delhi
31. Disha Shah Journalist
Mumbai
32. Amir Rizvi, designbar,
Mumbai
33. Asif Ayaz - APCR, Karnataka Chapter,
Bangalore
34. Rajashri Dasgupta Feminist
Kolkata
35. Prof Janaki Abraham, Delhi University,
Delhi
36. Jayashree Velankar Womens Health Rights activist
Mumbai
37. Reena Mary George Human Rights Activist
Mumbai
38. Lakshmi Lingam Professor, TISS
Mumbai
39. Shilpa Phadke TISS
Mumbai
40. Amita Pitre Health activist
Mumbai
41. Chinmayee Feminist
Mumbai
42. Dr Vibhuti Patel Feminist and wome rights activist
Mumbai
43. Megha Gupta Student
Mumbai
44. Puja Tayal Student
Mumbai
45. Chandi Chawla St Xavier, Student
Mumbai
46. Sashi Binadhani National alliance on matrenal health and
human rights Bhubhneshwar
47. Anagha Sarpotdar
Mumbai
48. Trupti Panchal
Mumbai
49. Vijay Amin Bank of baroda, officer
Mumbai
50. Nandita Shah Akshara
Mumbai
51. Snehal Forum against sex selection
Mumbai
52. Urmila Akshara
Mumbai
53. Uma Chakravarty Feminist
New Delhi
54. meena saraswathi seshu. VAMP
Sangli
55. Rima Kashyap, Shakti Social Research Centre
Mumbai
56. Vijay Hiremath Human Righst Lawyer
Mumbai
57. Rebecca Gonsalves Human Righst Lawyer
Mumbai
58. Subhash Mendhapurkar SUTRA
Jagjit nagar , Himachal Pradesh
59. Aruna Burte Disha Abhyas Mandal,
Solapur
60. HALO Medical Foundation,
Andur and Solapur
61. Pradeep deshpande Journalist and and activist(
Ekta ) Mumbai
62. Usha.P.E. Feminist
palkakd kearla
63. Harshit Pande Researcher
Montre
64. Kanamma Raman Faculty, Department of Civics and
Politics, University of Mumbai
65. Gayathri Brown- Iyer Feminist
Ahemdabad
66. Pramada Menon Feminist
New Delhi
67. Sumi Krishan Feminist
68. Forum Against Oppression of Women
Mumbai
69. Lesbians and Bisexuals in Action
Mumbai
70. Dr. Chayanika Shah Researcher and activist
Mumbai
71. Rajul Jain Student , Puen
university Pune
72. Suniel Gowtham Journlaist, janta ka
aaina Mumba
73. Santhi Nakeeran Health
Researcher Ahmedabad
74. Priyesh Nair Peace
activist Mumbai
75. Jyoti Mhapsekar Forum against Sex
Selection Mumbai
76. Pinky Bhatt Human Rights activist
Mumbai
77. Haseena Awwaze
Niswan Mumbai
78. Sonal Sukla vacha
Mumbai
79. Prof Chayya Datar Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),
Mumbai,
80. Mukta Srivastava Narmada Bachao Andolan
Mumbai
81. Monish Kaushal Film Editor
Mumbai
82. Kabir M Kapoor Documentary film maker
Mumbai
83. Dr Mira Shiva Womesn Health activist and Reasearcher
Nerw Delhi
84. Dr Vivek Korde Physician for human rights
Mumbai
85. Adv Mihir Desai Human Righst activist
Mumbai
86. Tasneem Balapurwala Journalist
Mumbai
87. Mamta Madhavan Student
Mumbai
88. Roopali Garg women rights activist
Lucknow
89. Mohmad Tarique Jan Swasthya abhiyan
Mumbai
90. Nilangi Nanal Women righst activist
Pune
91. Radha Gholkar Student
Mumbai
92. Shahin Dastoor Researcher
New Delhi
93. Prasad Pullarwakar Media Student
Mumbai
94. Viyjayanthi Iyer Media Styudent
Mumbai
95. Querobina Bawale Student, St Xavier college
Mumbai
96. Salina Wilson Student
Mumbai
97. Shobha SV Freelance jorunalist
Mumbai
98. Deepak Singh Software engineer
Mumbai
99. Pavan Kapoor Chartered Accountant
Mumbai
100. Kavita desai Student
Mumbai
101. Dinesh YUVA
Mumbai
102. dr amina ather , director , indian foundation for rediscovering
traditional knowledge . Bnagalore
103. Harish Sadani Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA),
Mumbai
104. Hemant Agarrwal Advocate, Punajab and chandigarh high
court, chandigarh
105. Mili Shetty Citizen Journalist
Mumbai
106. Sandhya Gokjale Forum against opperession for women
Mumbai
107. Cyril Roy University of Prince Edward Island
New Delhi
108. Rashim Singh, Association for India's Developement,
Conneticut, USA
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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
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