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Posted on 03/01/2006 4:17:26 PM PST by wagglebee
KHOTHRAN, Punjab, March 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Indian official’s personal campaign to halt the disastrous abortion rates of baby girls in the Punjab state has been successful.
Khrishan Kumar, deputy commissioner in the Nawan Shahar district of Punjab state, began publicly shaming parents who aborted, or consider aborting, baby girls for no other reason than their gender.
"What kind of society are we building?" said Mr. Kumar, reported the Telegraph. "One without any girls? One where parents kill their own child in the womb just because she's a girl?"
Ultrasounds for gender determination have been illegal in India since 1994, and gender abortion has been banned, but cultural preferences for male children overrides the laws. The Punjab is suffering from a drastic loss of female births—fewer than 600 girls are born for every 1,000 boys in the northern state. Normal ratios are 1,050 girls for every 1,000 boys.
Mr. Kumar started a list of women who had obtained ultrasounds or were known to be considering abortion, and then, along with a group of volunteers, staged surprise visits and phone calls to deter them. Public humiliation is a strong measure to embark on, but it is having an effect.
In December 2004, the birth rate in Khothran had risen to the equivalent of 787 girls for every 1,000 boys. By December 2005, the number was at 897.
If someone gathered a list of women in the United States who were considering abortion, they would probably be portrayed as a terrorist.
Pro-Life Ping.
If there are no women a Country will be turned into a nation of Masturbaters and queers.
Wish they'd send them to my house, I'd take five or six of them. More if the house were bigger.
Nothing could be more precious in life than daughters.
One loving man's voice...
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Thanks for the ping. I love your pictures - they always make me cry.
What's more it hoses up your karma.
You're welcome... and I hope you like them! (the pictures) I do try to use pictures that show beautiful babies - and cartoons that deal with the thread topic ;)... and of course, evoke emotion.
I used to always seem to get the "Grim Reaper" cartoons on my threads, but cgk eventually took pity on me. -:)
This whole gender preference thing is a self-correcting phenomenon. Already, there is a trend developing in parts of India, in which the groom's family has to pay the bride's family a dowry, instead of the other way around. Think that won't change the cultural perception of women, as it becomes more common? And even better for women, a previously unthinkable practice has started popping up, in which men who can't find a bride in their own caste, marry a woman from, gasp!, a LOWER caste. Hmmm, if I have daughter, I'll either get a big wad of money when she gets married, or she'll marry into a higher caste and raise our whole family's social status; if I have a son, I'll have to pay a big wad of money to get him a wife, or else he'll have to marry a woman from a lower caste and lower our whole family's social status.
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