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"A generation of women wiped out?" By Carla Power-Glamour Magazine August 06
..."Four more girls would have followed, except that they were never born. Each time thereafter, when Rawat got pregnant, her husband would send her to the nearby town of Palwal, where for about $12 a doctor would give her an ultrasound and, once determining that the fetus was a girl, a $35 abortion. Rawat had four such abortions over the next two years. "The doctors would say, You'll ruin your stomach,' but I didn't care," she say. "To my mind, it was better to die than to be under so much pressure from the community." Finally, Rawat gave birth to a boy, and instantly she was no longer the village pariah. "We threw a party, and the whole village ate," recalls Rawat's husband's uncle, Kake Singh, hunched on a stool nearby, before adding, "My wife had 15 abortions, and now I have six sons."
"There's no shame associated with abortion when you're getting rid of a pain in the ass-a girl" says Dr. Bedi furiously, "it's as normal as having a cup of coffee"
Do you know why they abort women in India-because women are a financial burden to the family. The price of a dowry outweighs a human life. "over the past two decades, as many as 10 million fetuses have been aborted because their parent's didn't want a girl." AND because of the rising gender imbalance bride trafficking and sex crimes have increased.
what bother's me is that I can't do anything about it. It's kind of like standing on the sidelines as you watch your house burn down with your family in it. That is how much it affects me.
..."Four more girls would have followed, except that they were never born. Each time thereafter, when Rawat got pregnant, her husband would send her to the nearby town of Palwal, where for about $12 a doctor would give her an ultrasound and, once determining that the fetus was a girl, a $35 abortion. Rawat had four such abortions over the next two years. "The doctors would say, You'll ruin your stomach,' but I didn't care," she say. "To my mind, it was better to die than to be under so much pressure from the community." Finally, Rawat gave birth to a boy, and instantly she was no longer the village pariah. "We threw a party, and the whole village ate," recalls Rawat's husband's uncle, Kake Singh, hunched on a stool nearby, before adding, "My wife had 15 abortions, and now I have six sons."
"There's no shame associated with abortion when you're getting rid of a pain in the ass-a girl" says Dr. Bedi furiously, "it's as normal as having a cup of coffee"
Do you know why they abort women in India-because women are a financial burden to the family. The price of a dowry outweighs a human life. "over the past two decades, as many as 10 million fetuses have been aborted because their parent's didn't want a girl." AND because of the rising gender imbalance bride trafficking and sex crimes have increased.
what bother's me is that I can't do anything about it. It's kind of like standing on the sidelines as you watch your house burn down with your family in it. That is how much it affects me.