{"id":40134,"date":"2021-12-27T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/27\/families-want-a-son-at-any-cost-the-women-forced-to-abort-female-foetuses-in-india"},"modified":"2021-12-27T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T07:00:45","slug":"families-want-a-son-at-any-cost-the-women-forced-to-abort-female-foetuses-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40134","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Families want a son at any cost\u2019: the women forced to abort female foetuses in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laali and Meenakshi\u2019s unborn daughters are among the country\u2019s 46 million \u2018missing\u2019 women and girls over the past 50 years<\/p>\n<p>Laali was alone at home when she realised her legs were drenched in blood. The bleeding did not stop for eight hours. As she fell unconscious, the 25-year-old thought she would die alongside the foetus she was losing.<\/p>\n<p>She had been three months pregnant when she was taken for prenatal sex determination. \u201cWhen I learned it was a girl, I started feeling as though I was suffocating,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/27\/families-want-a-son-at-any-cost-the-women-forced-to-abort-female-foetuses-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laali and Meenakshi\u2019s unborn daughters are among the country\u2019s 46 million \u2018missing\u2019 women and girls over the past 50 yearsLaali was alone at home when she realised her legs were drenched in blood. The bleeding did not stop for eight hours. As she fell &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,646,59,62,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-gender","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40135,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134\/revisions\/40135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}