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By Dave Andrusko The Times of India is reporting that authorities are investigating the botched abortion of a woman carrying a 21-old-baby for how it happened in an area on the Southeast coast of India and whether it was a case of female infanticide. Reporter Ravindra...
By Dave Andrusko A fascinating juxtaposition of stories from India. Last Saturday, a newborn baby girl, who had been buried alive by her parents, was miraculous discovered “after a local resident spotted some movement on the earth where she was buried,” the India...
By Xavier Symons Indian authorities have discovered 19 aborted fetuses dumped in plastic bags in the western state of Maharashtra, as officials continue a major investigation into illegal sex-selective abortion in the country. The fetuses were discovered in a sewer...
By Dave Andrusko The Supreme Court of India today rejected a request to abort a 20-week-old baby diagnosed with Down syndrome. Under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, abortions in India are only allowed past the 20th week in cases of a threat to the mother’s...
By Dave Andrusko Employees at a district hospital in Raipur, India, call the quintuplets born Saturday 'five-star babies' as they are probably the most premature quintuplets ever born in India. Raipur is the capital of the state of Chhattisgarh in central India. As of...
By Michael Cook India’s gender imbalance is possibly the worst in the world because doctors routinely abort unborn females after an ultrasound test. In 1996 the Indian government banned prenatal sex determination. Twenty years later the slide in the sex ratio has not...
By Dave Andrusko According to The Indian Express New Service, for the second time in a little over a week, authorities have caught someone not medically authorized to perform a chemical abortion doing just that in Panchkula, which is in Northern India. The accused is...
By Danny Burton A baby girl abandoned by her parents in Western India was rescued by her grandfather. Born at seven months and weighing less than two pounds, the baby girl’s parents reportedly decided to reject her when they saw her wrinkly skin. The baby’s...
By Michael Cook A woman doctor in India has sued her husband and a hospital for pressuring her to abort twin girls. In a first-of-its-kind case, Mitu Khurana, a 39-year old doctor from Delhi, claims that her husband, Dr Kamal Khuran, secretly obtained an ultrasound of...
By Dave Andrusko We’ve written dozens of articles about sex-selection abortions in India. While prenatal testing for gender is illegal, there have been very few prosecutions. And because sex-selection abortions are so very widespread, “India’s child sex ratio has...