National polls show that most Americans support abortion access. A Public Religion Research Institute survey from March found that a majori...

China has already enacted strict measures aimed at preventing sex-selective abortions, and health authorities also warned in 2018 that the ...

Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Universite de Paris, France, noted that ther...

Experts have raised concerns that despite the health ministry approving changes to the law, women are made to approach the court and go thr...

In a move that will make it easier for single women to safely and legally terminate unwanted pregnancies, the health ministry has recommend...

According to the report, improvement in SRB was witnessed in Punjab, which registered a rise of 19 points, followed by Uttar Pradesh (10 po...

The doctors said they observed that females outnumbered males among fetuses that were less than or equal to 20 weeks of gestational age, cl...

Nadda assured the support to the movement which aims to cover more than 6000 areas including villages, towns and districts in a number of s...

A glimpse into this intriguing decision-making process undertaken by about 2.5 crore parents every year is provided by Census 2011 data.

Maneka had said that sex determination test should be made compulsory to track women pregnant with a girl child as a measure to check femal...

case was investigated by Scotland Yard and passed on to the Crown Prosecution Service which said that although there was enough evidence.

The skewed sex ratio was attributed to sex-selective abortion and preference for a male child as also seen elsewhere in Asia.

The EDM, which has cross-party support, is tabled to initiate a debate on the issue in Parliament as soon as possible.

Immigrant mothers in Britain could be aborting unwanted girls as boys are considered preferable for cultural, religious or economic reasons...

The Union health ministry registered only 107 cases of female feticide under Section 315 and 316 of IPC in 2010.

Internet giants Google and Microsoft have pulled adverts for sex selection products and services considered illegal in India after being th...

Government plans mandatory registry of pregnancies and abortions to check female foeticide.