cmotherofpirl Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 disgusting and sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 have they learned nothing from China? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XIX Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Well...that's sure something to offer up at nocturnal adoration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lounge Daddy Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 this is sick and sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akalyte Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 [quote name='Terra Firma' post='1143530' date='Dec 15 2006, 11:40 PM'] have they learned nothing from China? [/quote] 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 I cannot understand how any parent can pour sand into the nostrals of their baby.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avemaria40 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 (edited) That's horrible! I don't get how ANYONE can harm an innocent baby, ESPECIALLY their parents Edited December 16, 2006 by avemaria40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Where's that mamma bear instinct?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balthazor Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldbug16 Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 That is positively horrific. I cannot belive that someone would do that to another person, especially and innocent baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeekingHisPlan Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 [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.... [/quote] 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piamaria Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2xbob Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary EJ Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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