About 100 Indian doctors will serve six-month to five-year jail terms and have their licenses canceled or suspended for performing sex-determination tests and sex-selective abortions.
A 1994 law bans such tests. A 2012 study found that India has three million fewer girls than boys because of sex-selective abortions.
CT has recently reported on gendercide in India as well as the growing Christian response to Asia’s “genocide in shades of pink”, which has seen 163 million girls aborted. Other CT coverage of gendercide includes an interview with Nickolas Kristof, coauthor of “Half the Sky,” which investigates gender injustice. Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives considered but did not pass a bill that would have banned sex-selective abortion in the United States.
CT has also regularly reported on India, including how the populous nation now has more believers than at any time in its 4,000-year history. An Indian court recently sentenced 12 men to six years in jail for 2008 riots that targeted Christians, and an Indian state court partially repealed an anti-conversion law.
