In
the feel-happy planet that is India, where the most powerful politician
is an Italy-born woman and where the newspapers are ecstatic over the
appointment of an India-born woman as PepsiCo's CEO, there has emerged a
news-spoiler that has not been greatly highlighted in the country's
media.
This is surprising since the news is revolting and the Indian news channels are constantly in quest of sensational news items to hike up their television ratings. A few days before India's 60th Independence Day celebrations, government officials in Punjab, one of the wealthiest states of India and also the birthplace of Bhangra music, discovered dozens of female fetuses dumped in an unused well in a town called Patran.
A quack, formerly serving in the Indian army, and along with his wife, was running an illegal maternity clinic where, assisted by a team of nurses, he 'helped' expectant parents determine the sex of their fetuses and aborted the female ones if the parents so desired.
The fetuses were
secretly thrown in the well. Allegedly,
this killing of would-be girls had been carried out for a number of
years. The quack had established the clinic in 1987. It was only earlier
this month when one of the nurses, upset over her salary, reported the
matter to the authorities. The decomposed remains of placentas and
fetuses were discovered in the well and the killings became public
knowledge.
Killing female embryos is an unacknowledged practice in Indian society. Everyone knows it is a crime and perhaps morally wrong, too. There are many who do not fall for it, but still it is acceptable. Just be quiet about it, please.
It is also true that many Indians love their daughters as much as their sons, yet the birth of a girl is an undesirable occasion in many families. Girls are seen as a burden on the household, a bundle of shame, and a thankless responsibility. They are perceived as offspring who, unlike the sons, would not carry on the family's name. Instead, a great amount of money would have to be arranged for their wedding dowries, which would benefit the homes of their husband's families.
India is perhaps the only civilization that worships God in woman-form, too. That still doesn’t stop many countrymen from killing their own daughters. Earlier baby daughters were killed by smothering, making them lick poison, or simply by not feeding them. Last year in the month of August, again in Punjab, a newspaper highlighted the report of a girl child being abandoned on a highway by her parents.
India has started shining. Developments in medical technology are more accessible. It is easier to avoid guilt complex by an early detection of the sex of the fetus, thanks to ultrasound technology, and opting for abortion, if it is a girl, in a safe, clean, and clinical process.
It is illegal in India to determine the gender of the fetus of a pregnant woman. Unfortunately the practice is discreet and willing doctors are easy to contact through word-of-mouth publicity.
However, in March 2006, a doctor and his assistant were sentenced to two years in jail for revealing the sex of a female fetus and then consenting to abort it. This was the first time medical professionals were jailed in such a case.
India is a great civilization and a confident country that aspires to become one of the leading nations of the world. It will never achieve this dream until it learns to appreciate the value of a woman as the same of a man.
The good news is that a willing acceptance of daughters is not impossible to arrive at in this conservative country. The newspaper that reported the baby girl was abandoned on the highway AS MENTIONED that a poor couple adopted the baby. The couple happily boasted of already having four biological daughters!
By Sreejesh Kaipully
This is surprising since the news is revolting and the Indian news channels are constantly in quest of sensational news items to hike up their television ratings. A few days before India's 60th Independence Day celebrations, government officials in Punjab, one of the wealthiest states of India and also the birthplace of Bhangra music, discovered dozens of female fetuses dumped in an unused well in a town called Patran.
A quack, formerly serving in the Indian army, and along with his wife, was running an illegal maternity clinic where, assisted by a team of nurses, he 'helped' expectant parents determine the sex of their fetuses and aborted the female ones if the parents so desired.
Killing female embryos is an unacknowledged practice in Indian society. Everyone knows it is a crime and perhaps morally wrong, too. There are many who do not fall for it, but still it is acceptable. Just be quiet about it, please.
It is also true that many Indians love their daughters as much as their sons, yet the birth of a girl is an undesirable occasion in many families. Girls are seen as a burden on the household, a bundle of shame, and a thankless responsibility. They are perceived as offspring who, unlike the sons, would not carry on the family's name. Instead, a great amount of money would have to be arranged for their wedding dowries, which would benefit the homes of their husband's families.
India is perhaps the only civilization that worships God in woman-form, too. That still doesn’t stop many countrymen from killing their own daughters. Earlier baby daughters were killed by smothering, making them lick poison, or simply by not feeding them. Last year in the month of August, again in Punjab, a newspaper highlighted the report of a girl child being abandoned on a highway by her parents.
India has started shining. Developments in medical technology are more accessible. It is easier to avoid guilt complex by an early detection of the sex of the fetus, thanks to ultrasound technology, and opting for abortion, if it is a girl, in a safe, clean, and clinical process.
It is illegal in India to determine the gender of the fetus of a pregnant woman. Unfortunately the practice is discreet and willing doctors are easy to contact through word-of-mouth publicity.
However, in March 2006, a doctor and his assistant were sentenced to two years in jail for revealing the sex of a female fetus and then consenting to abort it. This was the first time medical professionals were jailed in such a case.
India is a great civilization and a confident country that aspires to become one of the leading nations of the world. It will never achieve this dream until it learns to appreciate the value of a woman as the same of a man.
The good news is that a willing acceptance of daughters is not impossible to arrive at in this conservative country. The newspaper that reported the baby girl was abandoned on the highway AS MENTIONED that a poor couple adopted the baby. The couple happily boasted of already having four biological daughters!
By Sreejesh Kaipully
HEAVENLY FATHER MOVE YOUR SPIRIT OVER these children of INDIA BRING DOWN YOUR POWER FROM ABOVE THY FATHER HERE THESE LITTLE ONES CRY MOVE YOUR LOVING HAND AND CARE FOR THESE LITTLE ONES FOR YOU OUR HEAVENLY FATHER FOR IT WAS YOU WHO SAID THY KINGDOM OF GOD BELONGS TO SUCH AS THESE I PRAY FOR THESE LITTLE ONES IN THY LORD JESUS NAME GIVE THEM YOUR REST THY FATHER THY ABBA FATHER AMEN
ReplyDeleteThis is an outrage! What they are doing is sinful, and will have to answer to God for this, they will pay for their sins. I also don't understand the mentality of these people, especially ones who are educated. Don't these men know that the woman is not responsible for the sex of the baby, that it is the male who decides the sex of the baby because they carry both the X and Y chromosome, therefore it is the male who is responsible. Women only care the x chromosome, which of course is the gene for girls. OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN , HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASS AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US. LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER. AMEN I PRAY THIS SENSELESS KILLING WILL STOP. I PRAY THAT JESUS WILL WILL MOVE HIS HAND OVER BABY GIRLS, AND LET THEM KNOW AND FEEL HIS EVER LOVING PRESENCE AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. JESUS SAID AND A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. IF THIS WERE DONE WHEN MARY THE MOTHER OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR WAS A BABY WE WOULD NOT HAVE OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST AND WE WOULD NOT BE SAVED, AND WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. BUT THEY DIDN'T. MARY GAVE BIRTH TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, AND WHO SO EVER DOES NOT BELIEVE AND HAVE FAITH IN HIM SHALL NOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. THE LIFE WE HAVE HERE ON EARTH ARE VERY SHORT AND PRECIOUS, WE ARE ALL GOD;S CHILDREN AND DESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE , THIS MEANS BABY GIRLS!
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