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At the age of 28, Madhuri had three daughters and no son. With a dream to have a son and to fulfil her family’s demands, she became pregnant again. But this time she couldn’t take any chance and illegally undertook a sex determination test. As soon as she was told that it is a girl, she wanted to kill her, but was refused by the doctors who cited her poor health conditions. Madhuri was not bothered despite a risk to her life. She approached a midwife and aborted her unborn child. With this sex-selective abortion, Madhuri added a figure to the 10.6 million missing girls in India between 1970 and 2017 - a figure summing up the female foeticide menace in the country. Sadly, just two countries, India and China, contribute a whopping 22.1 million cases to the cumulative total of twelve Asian and European nations, where 23.1 million Between 2013 and 2015 there were 900 females to every 1000 males in India. The gap has only increased in the last one decade. "There are no guidelines … Read Full Article about Sex-selective abortion in India: It’s worse than you think