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Description: Female foeticide isn't a phenomenon restricted to rural India. Affluent South Delhi has some terrifying statistics.

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New Delhi: The affluent South Delhi has big cars, big markets and big buyers. 
 
But the ratio of male and female births from last census' figures in South Delhi was the most skewed—only 762 girls for every 1000 boys. One in every four girls gets aborted. 
 
“It's all about the economics. Doctors charge a certain amount for the ultrasound and abortion and often they even say the baby is a girl to make money. This will continue as long as there is a demand. I routinely get people asking me to tell them whether they're having a girl or boy,” says a radiologist at an ultrasound center, Varun Duggal. 
 
Even if ultrasound machines weren't being used to sneak out the sex of a baby, other technologies would. 
 
Duggal says that a new kit in the US allows mothers to find out the sex of their baby through blood or urine samples. 
 
Many young mothers say that doctors have told them the sex of their child in different ways. 
 
Usually doctors begin to refer to the baby by their gender, or tell them to buy clothes of a certain colour.

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Female foeticide isn't a phenomenon restricted to rural India. Affluent South Delhi has some terrifying statistics.

Posh South Delhi has low sex ratio

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