Foeticide

The American press don’t use the word, so it has gone largely unnoticed here, but likening abortion to homicide has made a comeback. In India, the media and even feminist groups unflinchingly call the gruesome practice of killing baby girls in the womb “foeticide.”

Two and a half decades of government intervention and civil campaigns against the practice have failed to stem new discoveries of bags full of aborted baby girls outside family planning clinics. Here is a link to just one site dedicated to stopping the practice by first calling it what it is.

View online at: https://c-fam.org/turtle_bay/foeticide/

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