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"বাবা চাননি আমি জন্মাই"

এ বাক্য অনেক ব্যাধির মত অতীত হোক। গর্ভের অন্ধকার থেকেই মৃত্যু না কেড়ে নিক। মাতাপিতা যেন ঘাতক না হয় আর!

1) "Of the 12 million girls born in India, one million do not see their first birthdays,” said Kamini Lalu, an additional sessions judge in an order in 2014, quoted in the Business Standard. “As a result of this human trafficking has become common in various states of India where teenage girls are being sold for cheap money by poor families, being treated as sex objects with more than half of such cases going unreported.

2) Every year, an estimated 500,000 girls are lost to female feticide. An estimated 4–12 million sex-selective abortions of girl child have occurred in different Indian states during the past three decades, and the brutal massacre still continues.

3) A research by Pew Research Center based on Union government data indicates foeticide of at least 9 million females in the years 2000–2019. The research found that 86.7% of these foeticides were by Hindus (80% of the population)

4) Yet states like Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Bihar still have pre-natal sex determination clinics operating illegally. This largely contributes to India’s estimated 46 million missing females at birth each year, which accounts for nearly half of global missing female births.