Doctors criticise report on female abortions

India’s top doctors’ association today said tough laws had helped end the rampant practice of killing female foetuses, responding to a new Lancet study saying up to 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in the country over two decades after prenatal checks.

Britain’s leading medical journal, the Lancet, said in a report published yesterday that researchers studied data on female fertility from a continuing Indian national survey of 6 million people in 1.1 million households.