Female infanticide in India

[fhassan]

The best way to eradicate this repulsive crime is to:

1) Ban doctors from carrying sex determination kits such as ultrasound around with them. Only registered clinics should be allowed to possess such equipment for legitimate purposes.

2) Vehemently punish the doctors and unregistered clinics if they break the law.

3) Tag all pregnant women (mainly poor Hindus) who have had an ultrasound, and keep a register for monitoring purposes.

4) Poor Hindus in particular, being particularly prone to female infanticide, should be monitored closely:

- The large dowries prescribed by the Vedas means that a girl is seen as a burden. There is no doubt that this is one of the reasons why poorer Hindu families in particular are prone to female infanticide, as is alluded to in the report.

The Hindu Holy Scriptures sanction female infanticide and the Hindu scholars will have to address this head on:

Atharva Veda.6.2.3 : " Let a female child be born somewhere else; here, let a male child be born."
-- [ Ath.Ved.VI.2.3 ] [ cf. Peri ]

Taittirya Samhita VI.5.10.3 : " Hence they [ Aryans ] reject a female child when born, and take up a male."
-- [ Taitt.Samh.VI.5.10.3 ] [ Muir I 26 ]

Have a nice day

 

[Nemesis]

They say ignorance is bliss, obviously in your case fhassan, they are wrong.

Female infanticide has nothing to do with poverty, in fact statistics have already been provided to show that it is in richer states where infanticide is most rampant.

As far as bringing in religion into the issue, i'm sure that a lot of textual "proof" can be provided to show how Islam, Christianity, etc have a bias against the fairer sex. This has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the patriarchy that is embedded in our society. Yes, our- Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, etc - society.

So instead of worrying about Female infanticide in India, please feel free to think of ways to improve the situation of women in your country.

Have a nice day.

 

[Spring Onion]

women got seperate bus,train reservation

they got ladies special bus & metro trains

50% reservation in local governance bodies

whats new in it. Its same in a number of countries.

The Female infanticide issue has nothing to with these measures taken by govt. This issue in India is getting dirtier and needs to be highlighted by media and educated people like you.

There is also need for educating the people across India and doing way with mentality which is cause of rising female infanticide destruction in India.

They need to be told that sons are not always a good choice.

 

[ashwin]

whats new in it. Its same in a number of countries.

The Female infanticide issue has nothing to with these measures taken by govt. This issue in India is getting dirtier and needs to be highlighted by media and educated people like you.

There is also need for educating the people across India and doing way with mentality which is cause of rising female infanticide destruction in India.

They need to be told that sons are not always a good choice.

the girls boys ratio is on the rise. Please go through my previous post