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By Our Staff Reporter
Speaking at the seminar on "Girl child's right to life" organised by the Karnataka State Social Welfare Board on the occasion of Human Rights Day on Wednesday, Dr. Peris criticised doctors who conducted sonography tests for determining the sex of the foetus, and said the Indian Medical Association (IMA) should ban doctors who conducted sex determination tests. Strict implementation of the law was necessary to curb female foeticide, she said. "These doctors have the blood of 50 lakh girls who are killed before they are born (on their hands)," Dr. Peris said quoting UNESCO statistics. Motamma, Minister for Women and Child Development, said women should stand up against female foeticide. They should refuse to be threatened into undergoing a sex determination test and subsequent abortion of the female foetus by the husband and family. Only then would this menace be wiped out, she said. The Minister of State for Rural Water Supply, K.B. Koliwad, Kamalamma, Chairperson, Karnataka State Women's Development Corporation, and Rukmini Sawkar, Chairperson, Karnataka State Social Welfare Advisory Board, were present.
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