Withdraw Rajasthan anti-abortion video: Activists tell JP Nadda

Jaipur | Monday | 2nd April, 2018

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NHM’s ‘Daughter are precious’ was uploaded in Jaunuary this year and has been credited to the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) cell of the National Health Mission, Rajasthan. When contacted, state health minister Kalicharan Saraf said that he was not quite aware about the video but would get the state health mission authorities to look into it. State health mission director Naveen Jain could not be reached for comments on the videos on Sunday. “This video is regressive, and stigmatizes abortion; girls or women accessing the medical procedure are painted as murderers of babies. “If the video is found to be objectionable, it will be removed,’’ he said..