10 Million Girls Killed

[cmotherofpirl]

Indian government confirms sex-selection abortion crisis

New Delhi, Dec. 15, 2006 (CWNews.com) - The government of India has acknowledged the serious dimensions of the problem of sex-selection abortion. Renuka Chowdhury, federal minister for Women and Child Development, admitting on December 14 that over 10 million girls have been killed in 20 years in female feticide and infanticide.

"Today, we have the odd distinction of having lost 10 million girl children in the past 20 years," Chowdhury told a seminar in Delhi. "Who has killed these girl children? Their own parents."

In some states, the minister said, newborn girls have been killed by pouring sand or tobacco juice into their nostrils.

Meanwhile, in a report released this week, UNICEF said 7,000 fewer girls are born in India every day than the global statistic would predict, because of sex-selection abortion.

Parents routinely abort a female baby because of widespread gender prejudice. According to Hindu tradition, a father cannot attain moksha (salvation) unless he had a son to perform his last rites. The strong desire for sons is reinforced by social pressures, and by the burdensome dowries still required of parents when a daughter is married.

Although Indian law bans sex-determination tests, many doctors ignore the law, charging high fees to determine the sex of an unborn child and perform an abortion if the child is female. This unscrupulous business explains why many places, particularly in northern India, have only fewer than 800 girls born for every 1,000 boys.

[MIKolbe]

disgusting and sad

[Sojourner]

have they learned nothing from China?

[XIX]

Well...that's sure something to offer up at nocturnal adoration.

[Lounge Daddy]

this is sick and sad

[Akalyte]

[quote name='Terra Firma' post='1143530' date='Dec 15 2006, 11:40 PM']
have they learned nothing from China?
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The world doesnt learn. Its just a fact of life. It's so selfish and stuck on itself that it doesnt care and most of the time its ignorant of the hurt and destruction it causes.

[homeschoolmom]

I cannot understand how any parent can pour sand into the nostrals of their baby....

[avemaria40]

That's horrible! I don't get how ANYONE can harm an innocent baby, ESPECIALLY their parents

Edited December 16, 2006 by avemaria40

[homeschoolmom]

Where's that mamma bear instinct??

[Balthazor]

You have more faith in mankind than I do with the mamma bear thing.

Everyone wants boys, even in the west girls are not as valuable...... I remember and can think of many examples of parents trying until they got a boy ..... it was like the girls were all mistakes to them. and then neighbors bragging if they had a boy and the other guy had girls.

[goldbug16]

That is positively horrific. I cannot belive that someone would do that to another person, especially and innocent baby.

[SeekingHisPlan]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1143705' date='Dec 16 2006, 10:36 AM']
I cannot understand how any parent can pour sand into the nostrals of their baby....
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It's so horrible to think about, isn't it?

While doing research on sex-selective infanticide in China a few years ago, I read that another popular method was for doctors/midwives to keep a bucket of water by the bed of a labouring mother. If the child was a girl, she was drowned in the bucket immediately. I can't imagine a beautiful new life just being snuffed out like that.

For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

[Piamaria]

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

[2xbob]

Ugh, and here I was popping in to the forum with a fuzzy paternal feeling thinking that I could someday be a parent. Don't people realize in their selfishness that woman are one of the two very important parts to their future.

[Mary EJ]