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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Aborting female fetuses lands doctors in jail

The Indian male staring problem is making sense. A doctor in India and his assistant have been sentenced to two years in jail for revealing the sex of a female foetus and then agreeing to abort it. It's good that India is cracking down on this type of female infanticide esp since the educated classes (i.e. doctors) should not be willfully promoting this type of behavior.

It is estimated that 10 million (MILLION!!) may have been terminated in India in the last 20 years. This is also leading to an imbalance in the male:female ratio in India. The national average is 927 women to 1,000 men. The northern states of Punjab and Haryana have some of the worst gender ratios in India. There are about 861 women for every 1,000 men in Haryana. It's therefore not surprising that women do feel threatened/unsafe in places like Gurgaon (Haryana) where there is such an imbalance. Not to mention that this future lack of females is only going to worsen the state of Indian male repression.

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