Gender Selective Abortions Should be Prohibited

Younas Masih*, Salima Saleem Mithani**
* Vice Principal, New Life School of Nursing, Karachi, Pakistan.
** Registered Nurse, Department of Cardiology Medicine-inpatient, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Periodicity:August - October'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.5.3.3623

Abstract

100 million little girls, or maybe more than that lose their lives due to gender discrimination. If a woman gives birth to a baby girl, she would become an object of shame to her entire family. Also, the baby girl and the woman herself would be treated in ways unimaginable. This is not only a legal but an ethical issue which deeply effects the societies and its roots. The purpose of this paper compare the benefits as well as the negative aspects of the sex selection and its abortion. It also focuses on the roles of the nurses in education of the communities to reduce it, also recommendations are given to help in the reduction of these problems. The role of the leaders, nurses and religious persons is vital in reducing the increasing load of this phenomenon in the world and particularly in Pakistan.

Keywords

Gender Selection, Abortion, Sex Selection, Gender Disparity, Discrimination.

How to Cite this Article?

Masih, Y., and Mithani, S.S. (2015). Gender Selective Abortions Should be Prohibited. i-manager’s Journal on Nursing, 5(3), 9-12. https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.5.3.3623

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