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From here:

Unsuitable girls

The finding that millions of female foetuses in India may be being aborted reflects the country's poor attitude to women, writes Salil Tripathi

Wednesday January 11, 2006

A new study in Lancet has cast fresh light on an old problem in India: the low value its society accords a woman's life.

Researchers have found that in Indian families where the first child is a girl, the ratio of girls to boys among second children drops to 759 girls to 1,000 boys.

This, they conclude, means some 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India in the last two decades, due, in part, to easier access to low-cost medical technology which can identify potential defects as well as gender.

I wonder if NARAL knows about this. Will they call for more aborted male "feotuses"?

Did you get a load of that number? TEN MILLION "foetuses" may have been aborted, in India, in the past two decades. And that's just the girls. Ten million girls who would never see a sunny day. Ten million girls who would never have a chance to take a breath, much less laugh, cry, learn to read, whatever. Ten million lives snuffed out--in the name of convenience.

And again, that's just the girls.

In India.

Think about it.

(Filed under Defense of Life)