Pro-Choice: “She is killed simply for being a girl.”
Britain’s hidden gendercide: How Britain’s Asians are copying Indian cousins and aborting girls
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1276902/Britains-hidden-gendercide-How-Britains-Asians-copying-Indian-cousins-aborting-girls.html#ixzz0ncSwhsPD
“For the hospital sonographer, it’s just another routine 20-week ultrasound scan. The baby is developing perfectly and, helpfully, is lying in the right position to make identification of its gender straightforward. ‘Would you like to know the sex?’ she asks. The anxious-looking Indian woman who has been staring so intently at the monitor, smiles nervously. ‘Oh yes, please,’ she says, her slight Midlands accent betraying the fact that she was born in Britain.”
“‘Well, you’re having a little girl. Isn’t that lovely?’ If the sonographer had been a little less tired, she might have noticed the slight hesitation before her patient’s reply, the fleeting look of desperate disappointment that crossed her face. But both are gone in a split second. ‘Oh yes, wonderful news, my husband will be pleased.’”
“But the woman is lying – just as hundreds of other British women of Indian origin do every year. Their husbands certainly won’t be pleased by news of another daughter and nor, more often than not, are they…”
“What was it daadi (grandmother) used to say? Bringing up a baby girl is like watering a neighbour’s garden. What her grandmother meant, of course, is that it’s an absolute waste of time and money.”
“As she straightens her clothing and walks out of the hospital, the woman shudders, knowing full well what lies ahead. The long flight to India, the noisy taxi ride through the crowded Delhi streets to the clinic, and the pain and horror of a late abortion. But her husband was adamant; they simply could not afford another daughter…”
“And so, ten days later and despite the fact that abortion on the grounds of gender is technically illegal in India, the life of yet another British Indian baby girl ends on the bloodied operating table of a Delhi abortion clinic before it has even begun. She is killed simply for being a girl…”
“Traditionally, unwanted girl babies are fed opium and left to die; others, I’m afraid, meet far nastier ends as India’s poor do what they have been doing since before the Raj – murdering their unwanted daughters…”
“Estimates vary as to how many Indian women are now ‘missing’ from the population, but it’s thought to be somewhere between ten and 35million over the past 20 years. Female foeticide, gendercide – call it what you will – it’s a terrible and chilling statistic…”
“A British-Indian friend of mine recently gave birth to a daughter and while there was a younger generation of Indian women like me, keen to celebrate the arrival, we were outnumbered by an older generation of female cousins and aunts, some of whom were in tears at the wretched fate that had befallen my friend. It was as though someone had died, not just been born…”
“They pass on to the next generation what they have learned from bitter experience: that they are subservient to men; their usually loveless marriages will be arranged for them; and the size of their dowry matters more than their education…”
“Recently, I was in Mumbai, the heart of India’s booming stock market, and yet in this bustling, metropolitan city the bodies of newborn baby girls were still being washed up on the beach…”
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