Ananya doesn’t think registration of pregnancies would curb female foeticide:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.This is, on the face of it, a ridiculous proposition both in terms of the norms it embodies and the institutional impossibility it entails. What we will effectively have is a black economy which will make back-alley abortions even more rampant and all sorts of new and creative arrangements for the harassment of women will become institutionalized. I am not sure if this proposal is any better than the cradle scheme or the ‘palna’ project.
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