they'll have a gay old time......
Posted on 07/06/2006 2:44:18 AM PDT by IrishMike
Ten million female foetuses have been illegally aborted in India by mothers desperate to bear a son. What will become of this nation of ever fewer women? ANNE SEBBA investigates: May you be the mother of a hundred sons - this is the Sanskrit blessing given to a Hindu woman in India on her wedding day. And the minute she falls pregnant, there is the traditional chanting of mantras by the other women of the family, calling for the foetus, if female, to be transformed into a male.
Increasingly, such age-old beliefs are becoming a curse in India, as, in this deeply patriarchal society, women have become obsessed with giving birth only to sons.
‘Asking me why I need a son, instead of a daughter, is like asking me why I have two eyes and not one,’ says one woman in the northern district of Haryana, who has just had an abortion after discovering that the baby she was carrying was female.
This woman is by no means alone in taking such shocking and drastic measures to avoid giving birth to a girl. In fact, such is the widespread determination to produce only sons that, since ultrasound scans became widely available in the Eighties, the number of abortions carried out on female foetuses in India has risen at a terrifying pace.
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This is indeed embarassing for every indian,but the government is now serious about the issue, sex selective abortions are banned in india and the doctors who perform such operations are promptly rounded up and put behind the bars.
You don't have to have abortionist to have abortions, they can do it yourselves.
You've got the same thing next door in China.
Two nations with huge populations, with huge numbers of excess males.
It's got a lot of potential to end badly.
they'll have a gay old time......
The article says the abortions are illegal, 10 million is a lot.
Could make finding a wife a real treasure hunt. Traditions don''t exactly focus on the long term results of stupidity.
China has the one child policy, has had for a long time.
Sons being preferred, many remote areas don't have the medical equipment to 'scan' determine the sex of the fetus.
Result: after a normal birth, if a girl...... bye
It is sad!
i guess abortion is murder, then. hm. finally we agree.
I know it's not 7 a.m. yet, but I'd call that "understatement of the day."
But....but....I thought abortion was a good thing.....
It's such a good thing that "feminists" worldwide won't even mention the overwhelming abortion and infanticide of female babies in cultures such as China and India.
I've seen statements in the recent past, that the age cohorts where this is a real issue are just now coming of age. I'd love to see something more definitive on that, if you come across it.
I believe I've seen mention that the higher percentage of Chinese males is reaching adulthood. I'll keep an eye out for more detail. I know Mark Steyn mentioned China-Russia border issues in this context recently.
What will become of this nation of ever fewer women?
As I see it their options boil down to war in one form or another at least in the case of China.
India might be able to import brides from Russia.
"It will become a nation of very frustrated men?"
That also describe every middle east country, as well as China and India.
...India might be able to import brides from Russia.
There is a share of that going on here.
Don't have time to look it up right now but in Russia the women outnumber and outlive the men so it would be a logical place for them to get them from.
There is the difference in religion to consider though.
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