Gurbhajan Gill Poem on Foeticide  -
Channel: Joginder Kalsi
Date: 2021-08-22

It is a disgrace for the Indian society, which considers the birth of a girl child as a bad omen or bad luck. She is considered to be a liability or a burden, and this illogical thinking of the Indian patriarchal society has led to horrid practices like female infanticide and female foeticide. Some of the reasons behind this mindset can be attributed to them being a soft target for the invaders to India, and later escalating demands of dowry became a menace. It was believed that daughters were unable to provide social security to parents and called for unnecessary investment in themselves, the fruits of which would be enjoyed by the in-laws. There has been a lot of studies to curtail this practice but nothing could change this deeply ingrained way of thinking. After studies, the Government of India passed the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique Act (PCPNDT) in 1994 to ban and punish prenatal sex-determining tests leading to female foeticide, but the practice continued unabated.

On the social side, there have been some institutions like Unique Home Save Girls where the abandoned baby girls were brought, and one can leave a newborn female child in a cradle provided at one of their windows. They welcome such children and raise them, educate them, and help them get married. There has been a lot of poetry written on Female Foeticide. Kalcine Film Enterprises present a poem by Professor Gurbhajan Singh Gill in which a girl in the womb asks the mother to protect her, hope viewers will like this.
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