Abortion in India: Facts and Realities

Does sex selective abortion have an impact on gender differential sin child morbidity and mortality in India? If prenatal discrimination against girls has been substituting for postnatal discrimination, then eliminating sex selective abortion may lead to an increase in excess female infant and child mortality. This book raises the emotive issue of millions of girls in India who fail to appear on the social scene, not figuratively, but in real demographic terms. The author as a distinguished demographer and social scientists describes the political economy of sentiments and sexual mores that lead parents to kill unborn daughters. This book fills a gap in our understanding of the ground realities with respect to induced abortion in India to create and evidence based body of knowledge. A book that goes beyond the smokescreen of data and regulation to unravel the human story behind elective abortion it will be of interest to those studying health, public policy, and gender apart from the general reader.