Pastor.MosesJustin
A Email Received
From Times of India, dated 11th January, 2006.
Murder in the Womb
State must intervene to stop sex-selective abortions
IT'S not a revelation, but a confirmation, that our female fetuses are
disappearing faster than we would like to believe. Successive census reports
have highlighted our skewed sex ratio, but a survey published in the latest
issue of the Lancet magazine throws up shocking statistics. According to this
study on female foeticide by an Indo-Canadian team, about 500,000 unborn girls -
one in 25 - are aborted in India every year. Even more disturbing is the fact
the ‘girl deficit' is more prominent among educated families. The researchers
attribute this to the rampant misuse of ultrasound technology for pre-natal sex
determination. Clearly, the 11-year-old legal ban on selective abortion of
female fetuses has not curbed this abhorrent practice. If the figures are real,
a whopping number of would-be parents and doctors should be behind bars for
violating the Pre-natal Diagnostics Technique, Regulation and Prevention of
Misuse Act 1994. It is sad that there is not enough public outcry against such
barbarism.
The preference for the male child is rooted in the centuriesold belief that
the son is the budhape ki laathi (old-age security) and the daughter the paraya
dhan (other's asset). This continues despite the fact that in a growing number
of families, at least in urban India, daughters are taking on the
responsibilities of looking after parents in their old age. A daughter is
considered an economic burden because of the money which has to be spent on her
dowry. Human greed and growing consumerism have made things worse. The argument
that it is better to kill the girl in the womb than see her killed for dowry is
outrageous. Since the bias against the girl child is based on economic
considerations, the solution too will have to be economic. Turning the girl
child from an economic liability into an economic asset is the most effective
way of tackling the problem. Taking a leaf out of MGR's book to fight female
infanticide in the 1980s, the government should incentivise having a girl child
through free education, extra PDS ration, perhaps even tax concessions for
parents of girl children. This is more likely to have the desired result than
sting operations against sex-determination clinics that the government has just
announced. At a social level, religious and social organisations must mobilise
their collective energy against this inhuman practice. Community leaders must
take the lead. Anyone involved in the killing of a girl child should be
ostracised by society. We have to do everything it takes to stop this barbaric
practice.
Our Reply
With reference to your email I wish to inform you that Unfortunately it is 100% True.
The real fact is in some villages the people especially ladies themselves fee the in
secureness of the females and they kill the child with the help of the fluid coming from
a type of cactus. The Electronic revolution of Scanning the womb has come to their rescue.
Though the Government of India has specifically banned the scanning to identify the child
Some scanning institutions come in helping hand and identify the child and the illiterate
Women specially trained in crude way for cleaning the womb help give some herbal medicine and Kill the girl child. Some times the mother dies of this barbaric method of avoiding girls birth.
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