Indian "Genocide" of Girls by Abortion Exposed in New Book "Disappearing Daughters"

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | July 23, 2007 | Hilary White

[monomaniac]

BANGALORE, July 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Unwanted girl babies in India are killed after birth by a variety of methods including being smothered with a pillow or cloth, drowned in milk, fed poisoned seeds or burned alive in sealed mud pots; but according to a recently published book, the most popular form of femicide is now abortion, with the assistance of ultrasound to determine the child's sex.

"Disappearing Daughters", a new book by an Indian woman journalist, Gita Aravamudhan, published by Penguin Books, calls "female foeticide" "an organized crime."

"The ultrasound machine has mutated into an instrument of murder," she said. Aravamudhan writes in the preface that the book started as a journalistic "story" like any other, but soon escalated into the biggest issue she had ever investigated. "Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female foeticide was more like a holocaust. A whole gender is getting exterminated."

A recent report by UNICEF said India kills almost 7,000 girls per day by abortion. Recent statistics show that the population of India is heavily weighted towards males with only 927 females for every 1,000 males, a contrast from the usual 1050 females in other countries. UK-based medical journal, the Lancet estimates the number of girls killed by abortion in India at 10 million over the last 20 years.

"It is a silent and smoothly executed crime," Aravamudhan writes, "which leaves no waves in its wake. It is happening while we, as a nation, slumber. In some parts of the country almost two generations of women have been exterminated before I completed this book and there is still no solution in sight."

In an interview with The Hindu, Aravamudhan, described as a writer on "gender" issues for 27 years, said she was shocked to find that female "foeticide" was most common among the wealthy and well educated.

"Foeticide happened among the rich, the powerful, the educated; those who were aware of family planning!…There was a deep link between female foeticide and factors like wealth, education, success of family planning, and medical progress," she said.

With most international aid organisations working in India pushing abortion and smaller families, a book such as this contrasts with official government-sponsored population control campaigns. LifeSiteNews.com editor John Henry Westen, during a trip to India last year, reported that even among the strongly Catholic Christian population of Kerala, small families are considered "moral."

Westen interviewed Sunny Kattukaran, the leader of a pro-life group in India known as Trust God (Pro-Life) Ministry, who laid the blame squarely on western-based population control movements.

"The Americans, the UN and other funding agents, when they release some funds as loans they ask our statistics on birth control, and insist on family planning criteria, only then do they pump money," Kattukaran said.

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

7,000 Unborn Girls Die From Sex-Selection Abortion Daily in India

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/dec/06121401.html

India Pro-Life Leader Explains How West Hurts India with Imposed Population Control

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/aug/06081701.html

[corbie]

While "civilized" Amero-European countries are touting abortion as a matter of "choice," and Westernized countries like India are encouraging female "foeticide," is it no wonder that terrorism is increasing? Whole third-world populations of young men with raging hormones come of age, with the shortage of women (Middle East, China, India) limiting their access to sexual outlets or validation (legitimacy, power) among their peers.

So we see prototypes like "Islamic rage boy" and gangs--lot of undirected energy funneled into extremism.

[Mikey_1962]

All distorted markets correct themselves.

As women become more scarce the view of them will change...

People always want what they cannot have.

[50sDad]

I don't want to appear to be an "ugly American", but heck...

Hey, you foreigners! Western culture is the pinnacle of civilization, and your little rat-bag, backwater, two-bit countries don't impress me one bit! As for America, in two hundred forty year or so, we have gone from the ox-cart to the supersonic jet, we've landed men on the moon (stepping on the mythical symbol of at least ONE lame, violent pagan religion), cured most diseases that STILL lay waste to your backward country where you are so busy killing each other over what Allah had for breakfast, you don't have time for silly things like making yourself rich. Oh, yeah, one more thing...in my country, we have so much food, we eat for entertainment and most of us are fat.

Good deal. You can go back to killing your young and blaming us for your poverty now.

[yldstrk]

Right on! Wish I had thought of it!

[CarrotAndStick]

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_abo_percap-health-abortions-per-capita

[amchugh]

Russia is so bleak.

[CarrotAndStick]

The graph for Poland on my picture is misleading. The correct graph is available in the original link, below the picture.

I guess the graph background got replaced by the foreground in the case of Poland, while I was screen-capturing it.

[perseid 67]

Thanks, for the graph it looks like India is not a contender for a Eugenics award.

I have read that boys are starting to out number girls in western countries because of better health care.

It is surprising that a leftist country like Greece does not have many abortions.

[hunter112]

As women become more scarce the view of them will change...

I've long said, if you want to solve a lot of the world's problems, invent a pill that can be sold on the black market to virtually guarantee a male child is conceived. The most backwards, sexist societies will either breed themselves out of existence, or come to realize that all human life is precious.