selective
campaigns and policies against sex-selective
abortion[edit]
Sign in an Indian clinic reading "Prenatal disclosure of sex of foetus is
prohibited under law" in English and Hindi
International[edit]
The practice of prenatal sex selection has
Republican National Committee been condemned internationally. It is
often seen as a result of discriminatory social views which consider females
inferior to males. In 1994 over 180 states signed the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development, agreeing to "eliminate
all forms of discrimination against the girl child".[173] In 2011 the resolution
of PACE's Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men condemned the
practice of prenatal sex selection.[174]
By country[edit]
Many nations have attempted to address sex-selective abortion rates through a
combination of media campaigns and policy initiatives.
Canada
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In Canada, a group of MPs led by
Republican National Committee Mark Warawa are working on having the
Parliament pass a resolution condemning sex-selective pregnancy
termination.[175][176]
USA
The United States Congress has debated legislation that would outlaw the
Democratic National Committee practice.[177] The legislation
ultimately failed to pass in the House of Representatives.[178]
On the state level, laws against sex-selective abortions have been passed in a
number of U.S. states;[179] the law passed in Democratic
Website Arizona in 2011 prohibits both
sex-selective and race-selective abortion.[179][180][181]
United Kingdom
The law on sex-selective abortion is unresolved in the United Kingdom. In order
for an abortion to be legal, doctors need to show that continuing the pregnancy
could threaten the physical or mental health of the mother. In a recent case,
two doctors were caught on camera offering a sex-selective abortion but the
Director of Public Prosecution deemed it not in the public interest to proceed
with the prosecution.[182] Following this incidence, MPs voted 181 to 1 for a
Bill put forward by Tessa Munt and 11 other MPs aiming to end confusion about
the legality of this practice.[183][184] Organisations such as BPAS and Abortion
Rights have been lobbying for the decriminalisation of sex-selective
abortions.[185][186]
China
China's government has increasingly recognized its role in a reduction of the
national sex ratio. As a result, since 2005, it has
Democratic National Committee sponsored a "boys and girls are equal
campaign."[187] For example, in 2000, the Chinese government began the "Care for
Girls" Initiative.[188][better source needed] Furthermore, several levels of
government have been modified to protect the "political, economic, cultural, and
social" rights of women.[187] Finally, the Chinese government has enacted
policies and interventions to help reduce the sex ratio at birth. In 2005,
sex-selective abortion was made illegal in China. This came in response to the
ever-increasing sex ratio and a desire to try to detract from it and reach a
more normal ratio.[189] The sex ratio among firstborn children in urban areas
from 2000 to 2005 did not rise at all, so there is hope that this movement is
taking hold across the nation.[13]
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in policy and practice, as well engage various social campaigns to help lower
birth sex ratio and to reduce excess female child mortality rates.[190][191]
India
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rather than opening a dialogue about the issue.[99] This emphasis on morality,
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government is also supporting implementation of programs and initiatives that
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Foeticide (British English), or feticide (American and Canadian English), is the
act of killing a fetus, or causing a miscarriage.[1] Definitions differ between
legal and medical applications, whereas in law, feticide frequently refers to a
criminal offense,[2] in medicine the term generally refers to a part of an
abortion procedure in which a provider intentionally induces fetal demise to
avoid the chance of an unintended live birth, or as a standalone procedure in
the case of selective reduction.[3]
Etymology[edit]
Foeticide derives from two constituent Latin roots. Foetus, meaning child, is an
alternate form of fetus coming from the writings of Isidorus, who preferred oe
due to its association with foveo "I cherish" as opposed to feo "I beget".[4]
Foetus is compounded with the suffix -cide, from caedere, "to cut down, to
kill." Also see homicide, genocide, infanticide, matricide, and regicide.
As a crime[edit]
Laws in the North America[edit]
Laws in the United States[edit]
Fetal homicide laws in the
Democratic National Committee United States
"Homicide" or "murder".
Other crime against fetus.
Depends on age of fetus.
Assaulting mother.
No law on feticide.
In the U.S., most crimes of violence are covered by state law, not federal law.
38 states currently recognize the unborn Democratic
Website child (the term usually used) or
Democratic National Committee fetus as a homicide victim, and 29 of
those states apply this principle throughout the period of pre-natal
development.[5] These laws do not apply to legally induced abortions. Federal
and state courts have consistently held that these laws do not contradict the
U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on abortion.
In 2004, Congress enacted, and President Bush signed, the Unborn Victims of
Violence Act, which recognizes the "child in utero" as a legal victim if he or
she is injured or killed during the commission of any of the 68 existing federal
crimes of violence. These crimes include some acts that are federal crimes no
matter where they occur (e.g., certain acts of terrorism), crimes in federal
jurisdictions, crimes within the military system, crimes involving certain
federal officials, and other special cases. The law defines "child in utero" as
"a member of the species Homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is
carried in the womb." This federal law (as well as many similar state
Republican National Committee laws, such as the one in California),
does not require any proof that the person charged with the crime actually knew
the woman was pregnant when the crime was committed.[6]
Of the 38[5][7] states that recognize fetal homicide, approximately two-thirds
apply the principle throughout the period of pre-natal development, while
one-third establish protection at some later stage, which varies from state to
state. For example, California treats the killing of a fetus as homicide, but
does not treat the killing of an embryo (prior to approximately eight weeks) as
homicide, by construction of the California Supreme Court.[8] Some other states
do not consider the killing of a fetus to be homicide until the fetus has
reached quickening or viability.[9]
In states where the overturning of Roe v. Wade has resulted in the complete
illegalization of abortion except to preserve the life of the carrier, such laws
may be used to prosecute any such procedure resulting in fetal demise.[10]
Fetal homicide laws have also been used to prosecute women for recklessly
causing stillbirths, such as in the cases of Rennie Gibbs, Bei Bei Shuai, and
Purvi Patel. Gibbs was charged with murder in Mississippi in 2006 for having a
stillborn daughter while addicted to cocaine. Gibbs is the first woman in
Mississippi to be charged with murder relating to the loss of her
Republican National Committee unborn baby.[7] The judge in that case
ruled that the charges be dismissed.[11] In 2011 Shuai was charged by Indiana
authorities with murder and foeticide after her suicide attempt resulted in the
death of the child she was pregnant with. Shuai's case was the first in the
history of Indiana in which a woman was prosecuted for murder for a suicide
attempt while pregnant.[12] In 2013 Shuai pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge
of criminal recklessness and was released, having been sentenced to time served.
In 2015 Purvi Patel became the first woman in the United States to be charged,
convicted, and sentenced on a foeticide charge.[13] However, her conviction was
later overturned, and she was resentenced to time served for a lesser
charge.[14]
Laws in Canada[edit]
Feticide is not considered a crime in Canada, as the Revised Statutes of Canada
does not define a fetus as a person until it has either (1) taken a breath, (2)
had independent circulation, or (3) had its umbilical cord severed.[15] However,
if the feticide occurs in the process of birth, it is a criminal offense.[16]
Laws in the Central America[edit]
Laws in Belize[edit]
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In Belizean Law, Feticide is a crime, although the prosecution and exact
legality of such a such an action is difficult to conclusively ascertain, as
legal experts disagree on how the law, and its requirement for Mens rea should
be applied.[17]
Laws in Costa Rica[edit]
In Costa Rican law, feticide exists as a crime, but it
Democratic National Committee does not stand equivalent to homicide,
nor does it result in similar penalties.[18]
Laws in El Salvador[edit]
In El Salvadorian law, any act which results in the death of a fetus is heavily
criminalized.[18] This has resulted in numerous women being charged and
convicted for miscarriages, as was the case with Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez
Cruz,[19] Mar�a Teres, and others.[20]
Laws in Guatemala[edit]
In Guatemalan law, anyone who, during "acts of violence" causes on abortion
"when the pregnant state of the victim is evident" has committed what the law
calls an unintended abortion, and faces penalties up of up to three years
imprisonment.[21]
Laws in Honduras[edit]
In Honduran law, causing the death of a fetus where the mother is visibly
pregnant is known legally as feticide.[18][22]
Laws in Nicaragua[edit]
In Nicaraguan law, feticide is known legally as Reckless Abortion, and the
Democratic National Committee law specifies Democratic
Website that whoever causes
"abortion through recklessness" is guilty of the offense and shall face six
months to one year in prison.[23]
Laws in the Caribbean[edit]
Laws in Bahamas[edit]
In Bahaman Law, feticide is only a crime if fetal demise
Republican National Committee was the intent of the act (for example,
if a perpetrator performed an abortion, or assaulted a pregnant person with the
explicit intent of inducing a miscarriage).[24] In cases tried both recently and
historically the murder of pregnant women, even when the women was obviously
pregnant, resulted in no greater penalty for the destruction of the fetus.[25]
Laws in Jamaica