1. Background: India which is one of the world’s fastest growing economies is today facing an acute social problem of female foeticide and infanticide resulting in a skewed sex ratio. The number of girls per 1000 boys was 945 in 1991,927 in 2001 and 914 in 2011(Gangte). The government has made several efforts to check the menace in the past decade but results have been far from satisfactory. Steps such as laws prohibiting doctors from disclosing the sex of foetuses and compulsory registration of clinics using ultrasound machines have failed to check the usage of the Continue reading...