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How come there are no girls? Pregnant women in India want to know. ("Feticide")
Public Radio International ^ | 09/14/2015 | Rhitu Chatterjee

Posted on 09/15/2015 5:36:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

The issue of sex-selective abortion is a huge and complex problem in parts of India. It’s led to gender imbalances in some Indian states that have reached “emergency proportions,”

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Under Indian law, it’s strictly illegal for a doctor to reveal the sex of a fetus “by any words, by any sign, by any way, by any means — by emailing or anything,” says Varsha Deshpande, a lawyer and activist who’s spent more than 20 years fighting against sex selection in her home state, Maharashtra.

“We see it as genocide.” What angers her most is lax enforcement of the country’s so-called Prohibition of Sex Selection Act, which is aimed at doctors but routinely ignored.

(Excerpt) Read more at pri.org ...


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KEYWORDS: abortion; india; sexselection
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Bizarre liberal thinking. They talk about the outrageous practice of "feticide" but it seems like abortion is legal as long as the sex of the baby is unknown.
If you can tell the sex of the "fetus" is it developed enough to have human rights?
In India boys are more valued for cultural and economic reasons. It's OK for poor women to have abortions in developed countries for economic reasons but not in India.
1 posted on 09/15/2015 5:36:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

What do the likes of Hillary and other liberals think of abortion of girl babies??? These people who favor abortion on demand — are they OK with aborting girls because they are girls??????


2 posted on 09/15/2015 5:40:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kid Shelleen
A surprising lot of people don't identify with "human" as much as they identify with some subset of human.

Therefore they may react against the practice of

-- more than thy object to aborting just plain "babies."

Indiscriminate killing of infants doesn't feel like a threat to them. But targeting members of their favored demographic subset, does.

3 posted on 09/15/2015 5:53:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." -- Billie Holiday)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

This is the response you would get from the loons:

Check your #patriarchy @$$hole. No vagina, no opinion!

Not even joking. I recently engaged with one on Twitter. Her responses were hysterical, literally and figuratively. When I compared PP to Nazis she told me Nazis were antiabortion and anti birth control, I kid you not. So I Tweeted back sarcastically, Birth control: Why the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. She fell for it! I wasn’t even trying to snag her up with it, I was merely making a sarcastic comment. She also called me anti woman, which is a little weird since I’m female. Like I said, hysterical.


4 posted on 09/15/2015 5:53:46 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Because the kill girl babies. They’ve been doing it for a very long time.

This is why in India there’s a massive amount more men than women, thus making it more difficult for Indian men to find wives.

Memo to India: If you want your boy babies to grow up and find a wife, then stop killing your girl babies.

In India boys are valued more than girls.


5 posted on 09/15/2015 5:59:39 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

The same goes for China


6 posted on 09/15/2015 6:13:24 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Kid Shelleen
All abortions are not only legal but holy and needed. No woman should be forced to carry a baby that is unwanted regardless of sex. Said every liberal everywhere.

Abortion is not only legal it is common, particularly in India a country that is misogynistic at best. Same with China.

What the Hell do you expect. Expect the same in America now that we have imported more and more non Christian third Worlders.

7 posted on 09/15/2015 6:28:21 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

It is beyond simply valuing them more for cultural reasons; I read a while ago that the dowry expected of an Indian father can be three years’ salary. When the government tried outlawing sex-selective abortion a few years ago, doctors that tried to abide by the ruling soon found their neighborhoods had an increased number of abandoned, strangled female babies lying around.

Abortion is murder; any supporter trying to make the case why murdering a female child is worse than murdering a male child is engaging in wishful thinking. De-sensitized people couldn’t care less..


8 posted on 09/15/2015 6:29:12 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Even before we started importing heathens we were leading the way with this evil. We EXPORTED it (often tying financial aid to it); when the Ayatollah came to power in Tehran the US embassy was the second target of his mobs. First they destroyed the Planned Parenthood center, a gift from the Great Satan to the ancient people of Persia.


9 posted on 09/15/2015 6:31:28 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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It is beyond simply valuing them more for cultural reasons; I read a while ago that the dowry expected of an Indian father can be three years’ salary.

Let the market operate. In a shortage of girls, girls fathers can say "No dowry. You want a wife for your son or not?". In a serious shortage, the GROOM pays a dowry.

10 posted on 09/15/2015 6:33:38 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Well I wasn’t saying that killing a female child is worse than killing a male child, it’s all horrific.


11 posted on 09/15/2015 6:34:06 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: Undecided 2012

Yes they do it there too.


12 posted on 09/15/2015 6:34:38 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: PapaBear3625

I think that whole culture has gotten so screwed up as East meets West; the few Hindu Indians I know are horrified by the very thought of children. Once they come here a lot of tradition is tossed out the window. The Boys Club in my town closed years ago, and is now a Hindu temple (they are one prong of the Asian/Hispanic invasion of the US; my town has far more Hispanics). An Indian friend eventually compromised with his wife; he wouldn’t engage in forbidden things (smoking, drinking, eating meat - particularly beef) in their apartment.


13 posted on 09/15/2015 6:43:22 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

These baby girls will never grow up and have “reproductive right”.


14 posted on 09/15/2015 6:48:39 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

I understand; I suspect it has been going on a while here as well. Decades ago my classes had noticeable differences (with more males), and now I see the same in my children’s classes. My wife is imported; I guess as long as someone is making enough females for the guys looking to get married there is no problem. Marriage has fallen out of favor so much in the US I doubt anyone even notices any imbalance (in terms of desperately seeking a woman to marry).


15 posted on 09/15/2015 6:52:27 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kid Shelleen

There’s a far easier way to fix the imbalance than making more girls: cull the male herd. That’s why we have wars.

Seriously, war is the eventual solution to large societal imbalances and that is just one reason why this practice is ultimately life threatening to both sexes.


16 posted on 09/15/2015 7:03:06 PM PDT by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

“Memo to India: If you want your boy babies to grow up and find a wife, then stop killing your girl babies....”


Memo No. 2: If you want to ever have grandkids, have a daughter - they might be in short supply, thus apt to be able to find a husband and have children.


17 posted on 09/15/2015 7:43:02 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Kid Shelleen

The right to kill the kid for any reason trumps preventing a slaughter of girls.


18 posted on 09/15/2015 7:47:04 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Gumdrop

Yeah Memo No. 2 is good also.


19 posted on 09/15/2015 7:48:06 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy in Occupied Europa)
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To: ziravan

I’ve read theories that the reason you see so much Muslim violence is purdah and polygamy.
Rich men take multiple wives, so many young poor men have no potential brides in the community. And they have no outlet in the sex trade or “loose women” as they can to a degree in Asia.
So you get more young men with no hope of satisfying the sex drive unless taking sex slaves in war or dying a martyr to get a harem in heaven.


20 posted on 09/15/2015 7:49:09 PM PDT by tbw2
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