Genocide of India's daughters (Ten million female foetuses aborted, sex-selective abortion )

Daily Mail ^ | 3rd July 2006 | ANNE SEBBA

[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.

[R. Scott]

Yep. One more reason I am glad I live in the USA.

[caver]

"One more reason I am glad I live in the USA."

You got that right. I feel blessed and lucky that I was born and live in the USA.

[Free Baptist]

The last report on birth ratios in China was more than a year ago. I believe it was then 113 males born to every 100 females. Over the years we have spent in China since 1990, even many common Chinese people (close friends of ours) have mentioned being very concerned about the increase in sodomites approaching young men in front of railroad stations and other (24-hour) heavily trafficked areas. We witnessed it ourselves, especially, in Harbin City way up north, where most of the Beijing-bound trains had late night departure schedules (during those years). Chinese themselves blamed the increase in sodomite behavior on imbalanced birth ratios over a long period of time.

[Tax-chick]

India might be able to import brides from Russia.

Caste problems with that, though.

[Scotswife]

Abortion always hurts women the worst. How sad so many women believe it to be beneficial and a "right."
As the technology for sex selection becomes mainstream, watch for our own genocide against our own future women.

[theBuckwheat]

Unintended Consequences Alert!

[Aquinasfan]

A woman has a right to control her... uh... er...

A woman has the right to choose!

[theBuckwheat]

Worse, this is somewhat cumulative. I have read that China now has over 100 million males in young adulthood for whom there are not a corresponding number of females.

What does an expansionist government do with 100 million excess males?

[Aquinasfan]

sex selective abortions are banned in india

But abortion is otherwise OK?

In other words, it's OK to kill an unborn female baby as long as it's for the right reason?

I'm not picking on India. The same mentality exists in the US.

[Aquinasfan]

I feel blessed and lucky that I was born and live in the USA.

You're blessed in that you weren't one of the 1.2 million American babies aborted every year.

[caver]

"You're blessed in that you weren't one of the 1.2 million American babies aborted every year."

Very true! We are all blessed in many ways.

[cvq3842]

How cruelly ironic, given that many on the unrestricted abortion side of the aisle refer to it as a "women's rights" issue.

[cb]

Look at it this way(the way the left will) millions more homosexuals! see.....they got it right.

[carumba]

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.

The sisterhood didn't anticipate that consequence. Millions of Chinese and Indians without the prospect of marriage would follow a charismatic leader ala Khan or Atilla or biblical prophesy.

[Tax-chick]

Millions of Chinese and Indians without the prospect of marriage would follow a charismatic leader

Highly probable. You can see this with the Islamic militants, in a culture where the prospects of marriage, for many, are limited by polygamy for the few.

[IrishMike]

...How cruelly ironic, given that many on the unrestricted abortion side of the aisle refer to it as a "women's rights" issue.

Brilliant PING !

[little jeremiah]

It is more than saddening that abortions are so common in India.

[cvq3842]

oh my

[carumba]

Just think of the opportunities to sell weapons, trucks, trains, ships, tanks, technology, Coca-Cola, and M&Ms. All we need to do is get them to promise not to shoot at US. (Nervous twitter.)

[cvq3842]

Thanks. Again, the "abortion on demand" side is so busy worrying about the rights of, say, an 18 year old woman, when 18 1/2 years ago they didn't care if that "future woman" was born at all! They try to square that circle by their definition of "personhood" or something. But it doesn't pass the smell test.

Similarly, why did people get so upset with Bill Bennett's hypothetical, if all he was talking about was a "blob of tissue?" He is against abortion, and only said it to show how awful it sounded.

I have known one or two "yuppie" type Republicans in my day, who said something along the lines of "let's keep abortion legal, so we have fewer welfare kids to take care of with my tax money." If that somehow became party policy, would that really please the left? Hardly.

This is a complicated issue at times, but the ironies are there . . .