Indian researcher Ashish Bose wrote about the situation in India:
“We find that many women themselves are interested in knowing the sex of the unborn child and they do not see any moral problem in undergoing these tests conducted by doctors: it is like getting blood tests for malarial parasites.
And second, most women have an inherent son complex. They know for certain that their status – in the eyes of their family, extended family, community and the village as a whole – will go up with the arrival of a son.
Gifts will flow in, there will be celebrations and relatives from far and near will call on them. On the other hand, if they give birth to a daughter, there is general gloom, no celebration, no gifts and the image of the woman suffers badly.”
Ashish Bose “Female Foeticide: A Civilizational Collapse” in Tulsi Patel Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies (New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 2007) 82
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