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PostSubject: India: ENTIRE families could be jailed for pressuring women into aborting female foetuses - YaY!   India: ENTIRE families could be jailed for pressuring women into aborting female foetuses - YaY! Icon_minitimeWed Sep 19, 2012 9:59 pm

ENTIRE families could be jailed for up to seven years for pressuring women into aborting female foetuses, a move designed to halt India's widening gender imbalance.

Girls are considered a financial burden in India, where families fear the cost of paying illegal but common dowries when daughters marry.

Campaigners believe that up to 8 million unborn girls have been aborted in India in the past decade.

UN figures show that female infants are twice as likely to die in India before the age of five.
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The number of girls born per thousand boys has declined from 976 in 1961 to 914 in 2011, according to census statistics.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/jail-family-plan-to-stem-girl-abortions-20120919-266sn.html#ixzz26yHMJKiB
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