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What doctors in India don’t tell pregnant women

January 26, 2012

I was talking with one of my former graduate students yesterday, catching him up on the excitement we all feel as we look ahead to our grandchild’s birth. He in turn shared with me that his sister is pregnant.

I asked if they knew whether it would be a boy or a girl, and he told me that in India, there is a law that forbids doctors from telling the mother the sex of the baby. It was passed in an effort to help prevent the killing of an unborn female fetus. Apparently, boys are preferred over girls. I was shocked to learn that a country would have to adopt a law to try to prevent such acts. Are there other countries with such laws?

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3 thoughts on “What doctors in India don’t tell pregnant women”

  1. I’m not sure what laws are in place for other countries as it relates to an attempt to slow abortion, but I know that the destruction of fetuses is rampant. If perhaps not getting an ultrasound would slow the decisions to carelessly toss out a child, then I am for it. However, I volley a question back: How many preventable pregnancy complications are being missed because of the inability to view the baby on ultrasound? Does the number of miscarriages due to undiagnosed problems outweigh the number of pregnancies that are carried to term because the mother does not have knowledge of the sex? It would be interesting data to evaluate, but difficult to track.

    I read an article on the events surrounding illegal abortions in our local paper and blogged about it. The link to that post is:

    http://onlyalittlewhile.blogspot.com/2011/03/proverbs-331-esv-do-not-envy-man-of.html

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