India Official Saves Baby Girls By Shaming Parents Who Consider Abortion
By Gudrun Schultz
LifeSiteNews
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Khothran, Punjab, March 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An
Indian official's personal campaign to halt the
disastrous abortion rates of baby girls in the Punjab
state has been successful.
Khrishan Kumar, deputy commissioner in the Nawan Shahar
district of Punjab state, began publicly shaming parents
who aborted, or consider aborting, baby girls for no
other reason than their gender.
"What kind of society are we building?" said Mr. Kumar,
reported the Telegraph. "One without any girls? One where
parents kill their own child in the womb just because
she's a girl?"
Ultrasounds for gender determination have been illegal in
India since 1994, and gender abortion has been banned,
but cultural preferences for male children overrides the
laws. The Punjab is suffering from a drastic loss of
female births—fewer than 600 girls are born for every
1,000 boys in the northern state. Normal ratios are 1,050
girls for every 1,000 boys.
Mr. Kumar started a list of women who had obtained
ultrasounds or were known to be considering abortion, and
then, along with a group of volunteers, staged surprise
visits and phone calls to deter them. Public humiliation
is a strong measure to embark on, but it is having an
effect.
In December 2004, the birth rate in Khothran had risen to
the equivalent of 787 girls for every 1,000 boys. By
December 2005, the number was at 897.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06030101.html
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Mr. Kumar started a list of women who had obtained
ultrasounds or were known to be considering abortion, and
then, along with a group of volunteers, staged surprise
visits and phone calls to deter them. Public humiliation
is a strong measure to embark on, but it is having an
effect.
If someone gathered a list of women in the United States
who were considering abortion, they would probably be
portrayed as a terrorist.
Posted on 3/01/2006 4:17:29 PM PST by wagglebee
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