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Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have promoted female foeticide in various forms skewing the sex ratio of the country towards men. [5] According to the decennial Indian census, the sex ratio in the 0–6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981, to 105.8 in 1991, to 107.8 in 2001, to 109.4 in ...
Prenatal sex determination is restricted in many countries, and so is the communication of the sex of the fetus to the pregnant woman or her family, in order to prevent sex selective abortion. In India, prenatal sex determination is regulated under the Pre-conception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act 1994. [58]
Abortion laws and views of the procedure are different around the world. In some countries abortion is legal and women have the right to make the choice about abortion. [ 40 ] In some areas, abortion is legal only in specific cases such as rape, incest, fetal defects , poverty, and risk to a woman's health.
New research from the University of Chicago has found that while just approximately 4% of men report having had the procedure, vasectomy rates for privately insured men in the U.S. between the ...
On April 26, 1981, the first successful human open fetal surgery in the world was performed at University of California, San Francisco, under the direction of Dr. Michael Harrison. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The fetus in question had a congenital hydronephrosis , a blockage in the urinary tract that caused the kidney to dangerously extend.
Adolescent health creates a major global burden and has a great deal of additional and diverse complications compared to adult reproductive health such as early pregnancy and parenting issues, difficulties accessing contraception and safe abortions, lack of healthcare access, and high rates of HIV, sexually transmitted infections and mental health issues.
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World map of birth sex ratios, 2012 The one child policy in China has contributed to the imbalanced sex ratios. Image shows a community bulletin board in Nonguang Village, Sichuan province, China, keeping track of the town's female population, listing recent births by name and noting that several thousand yuan of fines for unauthorized births remain unpaid from the previous year.