-TheWire.in The minister suggested making prenatal Sex Determination mandatory for all pregnancies to avoid sex selective abortions. Doctors and women’s rights activists on what this will mean in practice. New Delhi: How do we improve the low status of girl children in India, or even ensure their existence and survival once the technologies that enable sex-selective abortion are widespread? On Monday, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi presented a...

-TheWire.in Maneka Gandhi should lay off the law banning Sex Determination tests Maneka Gandhi, a senior minister in the Narendra Modi government has shown how completely at sea she is from her remit for women and child development by suggesting that the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act be abolished and that all pregnant women be subjected to a Sex Determination test on their foetus, the results of which would be...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Doctors have expressed surprise at Union minister Maneka Gandhi's idea of mandatory prenatal sex disclosure with some medics warning that such a move could lead to a steep increase in the abortions of female foetuses and legitimise a criminal practice. They say the idea to reveal the sex of an unborn foetus to every woman presumably to track any attempt to selectively abort female foetuses would provide couples...

-Scroll.in The Women and Child Development minister said there is no formal proposal on the matter being considered, though she feels the move will bring down female foeticide rates. After reports quoted Union minister Maneka Gandhi saying that prenatal Sex Determination tests should be made compulsory to track women pregnant with girls, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader issued a clarification on Tuesday. The Women and Child Development minister's office said the reports...

-The Hindu Striking a startlingly contrarian note on the social evil of prenatal Sex Determination and resultant female foeticide, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi, speaking at a media event in Jaipur, suggested the determination of the sex of the foetus from the moment pregnancy is detected. “It is really not feasible to go around trying to catch every ultrasound technician for revealing the foetal gender to parents in...