Re: Policy re: Fetal gender
From: Gautam Allahbadia (gautam@rotundaindia.com)
Sun Sep 19 07:18:56 1999
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DR RANA wrote:
> Dr.Patty,
> Thanks for the reply.
> Here, the law, not to divulge the sex is because there was increase tendency
> to female foetocide. The parents only want male child mainly after first
> female child ;to complete the family of two childern. Secondly, it is a
> myth to run the name of the family the male child is required, more so to
> keep the ansestral property in the family as, if; you do not have male child
> (hair) your anssestral property will go to your uncles. But that Law has
> been modified, but ,still the myth is going on in mass.
> To tell the gender in confidence, to the patient ,fetch more money and for
> that you need not to give in writting just verbaly.
>
> Rana
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: patricia carris <pcarris@hotmail.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND <ultrasound@talk.obgyn.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 12:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Policy re: Fetal gender
>
> > Dr. Rana,
> > I find your message very interesting. We have had an OB/GYN physician
> from
> > India visit and observe in our OB ultrasound lab for the past 2 summers
> as
> > she comes to stay for awhile with her son who is a gastroenterologist at
> our
> > hospital. We have politely tolerated her as a courtesy to her son, but
> the
> > only thing she seemed to have an interest in was having us point out the
> > gender on each exam. She said she performs her own u/s exams at home but
> > does not reveal the sex, I never heard her mention any laws prohibiting
> > revealing gender.
> > I still don't know why she always asked us to show her the gender.
> > Patty
> > Albuquerque NM
> >
> > >From: "DR RANA" <ssrana@ch1.dot.net.in>
> > >Reply-To: ultrasound@obgyn.net
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND <ultrasound@talk.obgyn.net>
> > >Subject: Re: Policy re: Fetal gender
> > >Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 05:16:00 -0500
> > >
> > >in India revealing gender of the fetus to parents is banned and any one
> > >doing will be subjected to procsecution as per the law of land.
>> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Gertrud Koster, M.D. <koster@emirates.net.ae>
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND <ultrasound@talk.obgyn.net>
> > >Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 10:15 PM
> > >Subject: Policy re: Fetal gender
> > >
> > > > What is your policy re: revealing gender of the fetus to
> > > > parents? We have a lot of pressure on us to tell them the sex of the
> > > > baby.
> > > > Thanks for your help
> > > >
> > >
> >
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Gautam Allahbadia MD,DNB
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