Nobody told that to the people of India. Going by statistics, India has the lowest sex ratio since a decade. Instances of sex-selective abortion and female foeticide are on the rise. In 1991, not a single district in India had been recorded with a child sex ratio of less than 800. In 2001, there were 14.
India's economy is on the rise. We have 4 Indians in the Forbes list of 10 richest people. We have a seat on the UN Security Council. Our global presence is being felt.
But we have yet to realise gender equality. We have one of the lowest sex-ratios in the world. The awareness and condemn of this pracice is not actively present. It is limited to rants by a few and the occasional editorial in a newspaper. The target audience of studies, research and the negative effect of a skewed ratio should be the rural and uneducated populace (although I'm sure it not just confined to them).
It makes me sick to read such articles. I wonder how the doctor and the nurse, who are supposed to be the 'healers' of the world, can sleep at night knowing they have assisited in murder? How can the mother, who is woman herself, can condemn her own daughter to death? Is having a family name so important that one can detach ourselves from what makes us essentially human, our morality? We easily condemn the terrorists killing innocent people but what about parents who kill their very own children? Isn't that by far a greater evil?
P.S - The fetal period begins at the end of the 10th week of gestation
Sources:
http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/sexratio.htm
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/08/29/stories/2004082900130100.htm
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India's economy is on the rise. We have 4 Indians in the Forbes list of 10 richest people. We have a seat on the UN Security Council. Our global presence is being felt.
But we have yet to realise gender equality. We have one of the lowest sex-ratios in the world. The awareness and condemn of this pracice is not actively present. It is limited to rants by a few and the occasional editorial in a newspaper. The target audience of studies, research and the negative effect of a skewed ratio should be the rural and uneducated populace (although I'm sure it not just confined to them).
It makes me sick to read such articles. I wonder how the doctor and the nurse, who are supposed to be the 'healers' of the world, can sleep at night knowing they have assisited in murder? How can the mother, who is woman herself, can condemn her own daughter to death? Is having a family name so important that one can detach ourselves from what makes us essentially human, our morality? We easily condemn the terrorists killing innocent people but what about parents who kill their very own children? Isn't that by far a greater evil?
P.S - The fetal period begins at the end of the 10th week of gestation
Sources:
http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/sexratio.htm
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/08/29/stories/2004082900130100.htm
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