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India is among the nations in South Asia that practice female foeticide extensively. Other Asian countries that practice this vice include China, Korea, and Vietnam. Most societies that support female foeticide prefer the boy child to the girl child. Such societies consider men as breadwinners in the households and undermine the role of women in raising family income. The male child represents continuity of the family lineage. Women are often the greatest danger to the girl child. They consent to female foeticide in fear of stigmatization of raising a girl child. Mothers push their daughters to abort female foetus to conform to cultural practices. The low status of women in Asian communities gives them no power and will to fight the vice. Unethical medical practices and technology enable female foeticide. Doctors often advise women to abort female fetuses arguing that the cost of abortion is far much lower than the cost of raising a girl child. Technology enables doctors to detect the gender of a foetus, which marks the start of stigma and pressure to abort the child. Other factors that enable female foeticide include dowry considerations, pride and legalization of abortion.