The book has been written on the issue of selection of a male or a female
child in the backdrop of population explosion and increasing rape and
atrocities on women in India. Margaret Sanger the founder of birth control
gives us an inspiration in her fight against the system, which does not want
to accept anything new against the set norms. She was the first to assert
the rights of woman on her body and her desire to bear or not a child. The
book raises many questions, as to looking to the peculiar circumstances of
the country, what is the optimum population. What is the desired sex ratio
of male and female? Who has the right to decide how many children are to
be born and whether a girl or a boy is to be born. Whether, any restrictions,
the governments or the courts are empowered to impose, in larger public
interest under the Constitution. Whether, it is not better to select the sex of
the child before conception or determine the sex of fetus and abort it before
birth than to kill or get killed the girl child after birth due to infanticide,
or rape and unabated atrocities on girls. If we cannot provide safety and
dignified life to girls what moral right we have to chant the hollow slogans of
Kanya Brun Hatya Roko and Beti Bachao, except our hypocrisy. No political
leader, no court, no law, and no social or religious institution can change the
mindset of people of the country for their preference for sons.