Posted on 07/24/2007 3:28:57 PM PDT by wagglebee
NAYAGARH, India, July 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The BBC reports that police have found 30 bags full of baby body parts outside an abortion facility in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Local forensic experts suggest the remains are the product of illegal sex-selective abortions.
The owners of the abortion facility have been taken into custody. Police have said there is no way of knowing how many bodies were found in the bags recovered from a waste dump near the town of Nayagarh.
Abortion, sonograms and the traditional cultural preference for boys have combined to cause a lopsided sex demographic in India that has left the country facing a massive demographic crisis.
With the population shifting towards the abortion-generated gender imbalance of 927 females born for every 1,000 males, the country is beginning to experience the social ills associated with sex-selective abortion.
Trafficking of women in India has become common in the Northern region of Haryana, where there are about 861 women for every 1,000 men due to sex-selection. Trafficking in women is a problem also experienced in China where a similar gender imbalance was created by the communist one-child policy.
While sex-selective abortions and the use of sonograms to detect the sex of a child are technically illegal, enforcement has proved difficult. A case last year in which an abortionist and his assistant were sentenced to two years in prison and fined Rs 5000 by the court in Palwal, Haryana, was the first time an abortionist was sentenced under the law since it was passed in 1994.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Indian "Genocide" of Girls by Abortion Exposed in New Book "Disappearing Daughters"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07072309.html
Abortion Doctor in India Jailed Under Female Foeticide Law
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06032906.html
Trafficking of Women Rampant In Northern India: 8 Women for Every 10 Men
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06040602.html
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I’m waiting for independent confirmation. Sorry, but this is one of those stories that demands it.
Thousands of years...
I wonder what the pro-abortion crowd thinks of aborting female babies only.
“Who do you trust to verify it out of curiosity?”
I don’t know whom I trust to verify it. Personally, my patron saint is Thomas, and I might as well be from the “show me state.” All I know is that such a story is one that is likely to be found untrue.
Stop exagerrating, kinoxi. Your hatred of all things Indian is so pronounced that you always try to present the most negative aspects. The most laughable example was the proposed US-India F-35 deal, where you made similar bizarre claims.
I don’t dispute the fact that female infanticide in India is that country’s most serious moral issue (among many other ones, albeit less serious).
To claim that the practice is going on for “thousands of years” is ridiculous and unsupported by history. The devaluation of females in India, while existent in earlier ages (like all ancient cultures), took a decided turn for the worst after the Islamic invasions, post 10th-century A.D.
Of course, people like you will still use this to spread propoganda as it suits your biases and deep-seated hatred for India/Indians/people of Indian origin.
I’m so proud of the people who outsource our jobs to primatives.
Look who’s on the thread...LOL.
The BBC is about as leftist a news organization as they come and that makes them far less likely to embellish a story that is negative about abortion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6911702.stm
If you do any basic reading on anthropology in it’s historical construct you’ll find this a relatively common practice.
St. Thomas is the Patron of India...
I had to escort my Indian friend to the store after 9/11. It was intense. You have no idea who or what you are talking about.
China has this problem.
It’s also the problem with a culture obsessed with a preference for male children.
It’s disgusting.
And this heinous discovery is only the physical manifestation of the degenerate souls of the adults.
Then why did India have to pass legislation banning selective-sex abortions?
My problem? LOL.....projection, eh?
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