Posted on 01/09/2006 11:00:27 AM PST by pganini
PARIS (AFP) - Around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys, according to a study published online in The Lancet.
Researchers based in Canada and India looked through data from a national survey, conducted among 1.1 million households in 1998, and at information about 133,738 births that took place in 1997.
They found that in cases where the preceding child was a girl, the gender ratio for a second birth was just 759 girls to 1,000 boys.
And when the two previous children were girls, this ratio fell even further, to 719 girls to 1,000 boys.
On the other hand, when the preceding child or children were male, the gender ratio among successive births was about the same.
Based on the natural sex ratio in other countries, around 13.6-13.8 million girls should have been born in India in 1997 -- but the actual number was 13.1 million.
"We conservatively estimate that prenatal sex determination and selective abortion accounts for 0.5 million missing girls yearly," said one of the authors, Prabhat Jha of St. Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto, Canada, on Monday.
"If this practice has been common for most of the past two decades since access to ultrasound became widespread, then a figure of 10 million missing female births would not be unreasonable."
The "girl deficit" is far more prominent in educated women, the investigators found.
The number of boys born as second children was twice as high among this group than among illiterate mothers.
However, the deficit did not vary by religion.
The study published by the London-based medical journal comes on the heels of a report last October by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which warned that infanticide or abortion was driving India towards a gender imbalance with alarming social consequences.
Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Pakistan and South Korea face similar problems, the UNFPA said.
The consequence of something like this on a society is so profound it can't be overstated. In a society like India where family is not just part of your identity but IS your identity it is even worse. When young men who's status is determined by being married and having children can't find a wife it will cause instability in India unlike anything they've ever known.
Needless to say, the feminists don't say jack about it, in the interests of not interfering with that good ol' "woman's right to choose." Even if that "right" means killing hundreds of millions of unborn girls.
Same thing is happening in China. Maybe "Brokeback Mountain" should be translated into Chinese and Hindu, eh?? How do you say, " Me so horny!!" in Mandarin or Hindu?
I thought that the femocrats did not like it for the exact reason that they worried that more boys than girls would be wanted.
Not to defend them, because they want to choose and we have to shut up about it.
What a magnificent victory for the FemiNazis: Ten million girls murdered. The baby killer Planned Parenthood in the US is drooling at that kind of business. What a glorious day for womankind!
Simple: aborted kids don't vote. Living women who want to get abortions do. So they'll go along with the abortion rights regime and ignore all the dead girls as hard as they can.
Give India 30 years, and its dating scene will be as bad as Seattle, WA.
These guys think sons are worth more than daughters and the libs love them.
Amazing that India has a worst caste now than "untouchable". It's called "female". How does all of this fit in with Hindu belief?
And also ignoring the clinical depression in women who have had abortions.
Science moves forward even if the femocrats won't. Nothing that they told us about abortion was true. It's not safe. It's not rare and yes there is a slippery slope.
I'm imagining a large scale land war between China and India's all male armies would help bring the blanace back to both countries. Shields and spears would be my choice for technology. Winner gets Tibet.
I find it hard to believe that any practice that would put pressure on the populations of China and India wouldn't make the socks of this forum roll up and down with glee.
Reducing troll population by one . . .
The same thing is going to happen to China.
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy.....the truth hurts doesn't it?
Nice catch. Wow you beat us all to the ZOT fun!
[Golf clap] for post #15.
WOW you guys are fast? You have a troll seeking crystal ball that lets you zero in on them or something? No wonder I never get IBTZ!
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