OneWorld.net (U.S.)

An attempt to amend the law banning pre-conception sex selection in India has been turned down by the Bombay High Court, which observed that allowing pre-natal sex selection in a country which has a definite bias against the girl-child would amount to sex-selective abortion.

“Sex selection is not only against the spirit of the Indian Constitution, it also insults and humiliates womanhood. It violates a woman’s right to life. This is perhaps the greatest argument in favour of the ban on pre-natal sex-determination tests in India,” said the Bombay High Court on September 6 as it dismissed a petition asking for the ban on pre-conception sex selection to be revoked.

The court was ruling on a controversial petition filed by Vinod and Kirti Sharma to allow parents with one or more children of the same gender to select the sex of the child before it was conceived.

SOURCE: Infochange