I just read a heart breaking article on the BBC about female foeticide. This is the practice of aborting a baby once you find out its going to be a girl. This has already caused havoc in the girl-boy ratio in China (coupled with the one child policy), and India is not that far behind. You think given the poverty and the deeply ingrained preference for boys would be a large factor and it is, but this article mentions something very disturbing:
“In rural Bihar, information on sex selection is not easily accessible. Also, the poor cannot afford to pay for the ultrasound or the termination of pregnancy,” he says.
Ms Sinha says the problem of female foeticide is seen more in the middle class and affluent families and urban areas which have access to technology.
“In cities what we see is a daughter who is 16 and then a son who is six – so what happened in between?”
Yes, it’s the rich and affluent who are doing it more than the poor. The RICH AND EDUCATED! This just makes me very upset. I would have thought with some poverty programs and education that we could defeat this thing, but when the rich and educated and doing it, then we have a larger problem.
Just plain evil!
