I've written about female abortion and infanticide in Arab and Muslim countries, but this article about Indians using abortion for gender selection really highlights how much "womens' rights" can cost a society -- especially baby women.
PATTRAN, India (Reuters) - Manual laborer Gulzar Singh is haunted by the day he exhumed baby fetuses from a pit outside an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India's fight against female feticide."Inside the well I found bones. Small ones. Little, little ones. There were some baby skulls too," recalled Singh with a shudder.
Singh was ordered by police in early August to dig up pits on the grounds of a private hospital in Pattran, a small town in the Punjab state, which was suspected of operating an illegal abortion clinic.
It was a job that would change his life.
Over the next few hours, he removed the remains of scores of unborn babies from two deep pits, an experience he says he will never forget and one which leaves him struggling for breath at night and unable to enjoy the company of friends.
Singh says he removed the flesh and bones of around 300 aborted babies. The authorities say it was somewhere between 20 to 100 fetuses and they assume that all were female although gender tests results will only be ready next month.
Does the fact that most aborted babies around the world are female make any impact on those "feminists" who advocate the "right to choose [to kill babies]"?
According to a study published in the British medical journal, the Lancet, about 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the last 20 years.Traditionally, India's patriarchal society has preferred boys over girls. Across its rural landscape an often-used blessing for daughter-in-laws is "May you be the mother of 100 sons".
In Punjab and the neighboring state of Haryana, where many girls are believed to be killed in the womb or soon after birth, sex ratios have been heavily skewed.
According to the 2001 census, the latest official population data, the national sex ratio was 933 girls to 1,000 boys whereas in Punjab it was 798 girls to 1,000 boys in 2001, compared to 875 in 1991.
So let's recap the morality of American leftists. Recognizing that there may be a biological basis for the differences in male and female performance in the sciences: bad. Slaughtering millions of girls in the womb: good.
