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In Chandigarh, a woman was refused #abortion because she did not have an Aadhaar. She sought a back alley abortion and suffered extreme bleeding and complications.
Thread: 1/ We are very upset about a number of horrific videos emerging of women specifically being physically restrained by govt officials &vaccinated as they scream & beg not to be vaccinated. This elderly woman was cornered in the fields by 5 officials.
3/ A third video from India of police and govt workers barging into this woman's house, forcefully restraining her as she tries to fend them off, and vaccinating her.
1/ Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ (Save the Girl, Educate the Girl) programme, launched in January 2015, was the first time since India's independence in 1947 that the Indian government had raised the issue of female genocide in a public campaign.
2/ British census data in the 18th century had attributed India’s skewed #sexratio to female #infanticide and other forms of #femicide, such as sati, but after independence subsequent governments remained bizarrely indifferent to the issue even as it reached epidemic proportions.