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"Female Infanticide" a Tradition in Asia Being Aided By Technology
The method of skirting around the law is one of many reasons why 85 million women are described as "missing" from the populations of India and China, where the abortion of female fotuses, infanticide and the death of girls through neglect is all too common.
For a mother desperately seeking a son, a pink folder can mean a trip to an abortion clinic where the operation will often be justified with the catch-all "fetal abnormality."
"So-called 'gendercide' is a daily reality across rich or poor, rural or urban. It doesn't matter if the family lives in a village, the smart suburbs, or have even emigrated to Canada."
The term "missing women" was coined by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in 1990.
The number is estimated by comparing the actual sex ratio in any population with what it would theoretically be if equal treatment were given to the sexes during pregnancy, birth and after-wards.
A report from the United Nations Development Program last week said 100 million women were "missing" in Asia -- 85 million from China and India, but also from Bangladesh, Iran and Pakistan.
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There are atrocious wall advertisements posted brazenly in many parts of Harayana which incite couples to abort female fetus shamelessly.
"Spend Rupees 500 now and save Rupees 50,000 later" is the most brazen examples of unholy practice of greedy doctors out to make money by killing unborn female babies.
Nothing has been done and no effort seem to made to stop such practices in right Ernest.
Technology has become a tool of these shameless doctors indulging in business of killing babies for money and of course the parents are at blame too, for their never ending and pathetic quest to have a son. Some couples have aborted many girls before getting a boy.