India 'loses 10m female births'

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**news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4592890.stm

More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research. ** Researchers in India and Canada for the Lancet journal said prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year.
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       Their research was based on a national survey of 1.1m households in 1998.           

       The researchers said the "girl deficit" was more common among educated women but did not vary according to religion.           

                 The unusual gender balance in India has been known about for some time.
In most countries, women slightly outnumber men, but separate research for the year 2001 showed that for every 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls.
 
Does this really surprise anybody?
If China’s one-child policy had been nation-wide (it was rural only), the disparity can only be imagined.
 
Yes, saw this on the news today, I was shocked and saddened ! … the silent genocide. 😦
 
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Does this really surprise anybody?
If China’s one-child policy had been nation-wide (it was rural only), the disparity can only be imagined.
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The following thread talks about the effects worldwide:
Researcher: Abortion, Infanticide Means 200 Million Fewer Woman
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Indian women, forever victims

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The figure of ten million missing baby girls in India that the medical journal Lancet revealed yesterday has put the status of women in India back front and centre in the public debate. Selective abortion is but the tip of the iceberg of a situation that includes forced marriage, sexual exploitation, humiliation and suicide due to high dowry costs. Irrespective of social class and economic status or religion Indian women remain vulnerable in a society that still divides human beings between touchables and untouchables and the Catholic Church has found itself hard pressed to do so something against such deeply rooted cultural and historic inequalities. In the past, some nomadic tribes forced women into sexual slavery, including polyandry. In some areas of Punjab, women were forced to marry all the men of a family to retain agricultural lands within the kin group.

Today, selective abortion and amniocentesis to determine a foetus’ sex is just a more “civilised” way to perform female infanticide, a custom that was still regularly practiced 20 years ago in India, from the North to the South. Usually, the victims were either choked to death, forced to ingurgitate vast quantities of opium or (especially in southern India) suffocated by forcing rice into the mouth. India banned sex determination and selective abortion in 1994 but amniocentesis remains popular among women of all social classes. Many hospitals and clinics carry it out in secret, but for every facility uncovered by the authorities, ten or more get away scot-free.
 
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India Doctors Reject Britain Study on Sex-Selection Abortions There
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 10, 2006

**New Delhi, India (LifeNews.com) – **India’s top doctor’s group is rejecting the analysis by the British medical journal Lancet saying that as many as 10 million sex-selection abortions may have occurred in India since ultrasounds were able to detect the gender of an unborn child approximately 20 years ago.

At the same time, the physicians group agreed that the use of modern medical technology has been used to further prejudices against girl babies.

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This is happening the world over. I am sure it happens in the US too, yet not to the same degree. So many people have one boy and one girl. It is almost uncanny. I think the India and China admit it, and that is the difference.
 
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