{"id":235103,"date":"2020-11-26T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=235103"},"modified":"2020-11-25T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:43:44","slug":"woman-dies-forced-abortion-india-baby-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-dies-forced-abortion-india-baby-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in India dies after family members force her to abort baby girl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in India was forced into an abortion<\/a> by her family after they learned she was pregnant with a girl. She later died from the procedure, and her family is now under investigation.<\/p>\n

Mithun Kumar, Superintendent of Police Anakanuru, spoke to the New Indian Express<\/a> about the case. The woman, Sreekanya, lived in Polavarapalli Village of Bagepalli, and got married in 2014 to a man named Somashekar. They had two children, both girls, and when Sreekanya got pregnant for a third time, Somashekar expected a boy, as did his family.<\/p>\n

Somashekar and his family took Sreekanya to see a doctor in Ananthpur, Andhra Pradesh, where they performed an illegal ultrasound to determine the sex of the baby. When it was discovered that she was having another girl, they forced Sreekanya into an abortion against her will. Not long afterwards, Sreekanya’s health began to deteriorate, and she was taken to a hospital in Bengaluru, where she died.<\/p>\n