A group of health activists, women’s groups and civil society organisations in Rajasthan have written to Union Health Minister JP Nadda demanding that two videos that are meant to educate about female foeticide be withdrawn. What the videos end up doing instead is promote anti abortion sentiments and are anti women, write the activists.
The two videos titled ‘Daughters are Precious’ and ‘Community Engagement for Saving Daughters in Rajasthan’ bear the logo of the National Health Mission (NHM) and include credits to the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) cell of the National Health Mission, Rajasthan.
The videos that follow the growth of the foetus over several weeks, refer to the foetus as a ‘baby.’
They write,