FEMALE FETICIDE: THE TRUE PICTURE
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In today’s world, when girls have reached to the heights of the moon and Mount Everest is also not a difficult deal to crack by any female. This is a time, when one has to take an action in order to remove this ill in the society. The number of females in India has decreased to a considerable limit and it is projected that if this scenario continues then in the next 20 years, females would be the most hidden word in the country. Though many reasons are found to be the cause of this problem but there is a solution to every problem and it needs to be curbed.
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