The girl child in the womb faces the peril of prebirth elimination i.e. female foeticide.Female foeticide refers to the elimination of female foetus through abortions.Feticide or foeticide is an act that causes the death of a fetus.
In a legal context, "fetal homicide" or "child destruction" refers to the deliberate or incidental killing of a fetus due to a criminal human act, such as a punch or kick to the abdomen of a pregnant woman.
As a medical term, feticide is destruction of a fetus,for example as the first phase of a legal induced abortion. Feticide does not refer to the death of a fetus from entirely natural causes, or through the spontaneous abortion of a pregnancy where the life of the fetus could not be maintained artificially

However, the Indian Medical Association disputed the findings, saying gender selection had dropped since a court ruling outlawed the practice in 2001.The new slogan of population changed to "WE TWO OUR ONE"