I wasn't aware, until I read the linked article below, that selective abortion was so widespread in India. I'm horrified, as I continue to be about the practice elsewhere.
Evidence of female infanticide and selective abortion in India
Mary Rarden
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This is such a shame. I actually commented on this situation in a sermon I did earlier this year. I was comparing it to the attitude towards women in biblical times. I think it's a disgrace that we're still having to deal with this problem in the 21st century.
Mary, have you been getting my e-mails?
Posted by: Lori Buckle | September 28, 2006 at 11:36 AM
This is what happens when you introduce amnio and easy abortion ("Search-and-Destroy" in 1980s Pro-Lifer terminology) to a traditional society where only males have any value. Pre-birth version of the female infanticide you already find in the culture. Gynocide.
And a generation or two later, you have a society with a surplus of young aggressive males who can't get any. Where the only way to get a female is tribal warfare -- raid the Other, kill the males, and grab (and do) their females. (i.e. the archaic/original meaning of "rape", to carry off.) Just like a chimpanzee troop on a rampage. (That's not racist, it's Primate hindbrain in action, common to ALL humans. In ancient times of low-tech tribal societies, "whites" did exactly the same thing.)
Posted by: Headless Unicorn Guy | February 04, 2010 at 12:34 PM