The illegal sex determination through ultrasound results in millions of female foeticide every year. In 2001 Census of India the expected number of girl children was less than two million, apparently aborted by parents with the help of latest ultrasound facility.[1] In Nepal, the reporting of abortion is in decreasing trend [?]. The abortion cases reported in years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 were 81, 89, 55, 14, and 12, 15, 8 respectively.[2] However the sex of aborted children could not be confirmed. The recent new Nepali law legitimating the conditional abortions might be misused.
[1] " The Lost Girls", Femina, 15 Nov. 2003
[2] Police headquarters
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