<p>[Despite</a> rapid growth, India lets its girls die - World news - South and Central Asia - msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42892710/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/t/despite-rapid-growth-india-lets-its-girls-die/]Despite”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42892710/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/t/despite-rapid-growth-india-lets-its-girls-die/)</p>
<p>What in the hell is wrong with these people</p>
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I knew that the discrimination in killing unborn children based on gender existed, but that’s surprising that the government actually banned revealing it.</p>
<p>If Gandhi could defy the caste system, there have to be people there to change things with this murderous discrimination. Killing girls in the womb, then starving many who are born through neglect is a major human rights issue.</p>
<p>There are women’s groups in India who blame GE’s aggressive promotion of ultrasound machine usage for increase in abortions.</p>
<p>The article says that because sex-selection abortion targets female fetuses, it is illegal in India for techs/doctors to reveal the sex of a fetus-- Obviously many break the law. You can’t blame the machine. It is the culture. It is the illogical preference for males that is the problem. This makes me angry, and sick to my stomach. </p>
<p>I can’t understand why these families don’t give these girls up for adoption if they don’t want them. Why starve your own daughters?</p>
<p>It isn’t only in India
[-</a> Women of Spirit: China’s Unwanted Girls ? A Celebration of Women](<a href=“ADELE BUTLER – Women of Spirit: China’s Unwanted Girls”>ADELE BUTLER – Women of Spirit: China’s Unwanted Girls)</p>
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People in India don’t want to adopt daughters; or at least not enough of them do. International adoptions are complicated and costly, but I wish they were easier; more might live.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see in 20 years where all of those extra baby boys will find wives. Maybe it will come to the men paying the woman’s family a dowry. That will be a lot of wifeless men.</p>
<p>In Japan they are seeing lower birth rates .
[Japanese</a> Women Shy From Dual Mommy Role - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703194.html]Japanese”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703194.html)</p>
<p>You need what, 2.05 to sustain a population? Or is it 2.2? There’s a 5 in there somewhere, I think, but not sure if it’s .05 or 1/5. A lot of developed countries are facing this population decline. Luckily, the US has a steady stream of immigrants wanting to come here, so even if birthrates fell that low, population wouldn’t fall off.</p>
<p>“People in India don’t want to adopt daughters; or at least not enough of them do. International adoptions are complicated and costly, but I wish they were easier; more might live.”</p>
<p>Actually, that was very true 15 years ago, but not anymore. It has become almost fashionable now for middle class Indians who are childless to adopt children - both boys and girls. My own daughter was adopted from the world’s oldest battered women’s shelter - in Mumbai - 20 years ago. Now, they don’t do ANY international adoptions anymore, as the girls are being adopted locally.</p>
<p>What is very true, however, is that there is no adoption infrastructure in rural (or even parts of urban) India where girls could be taken, or enough orphanages for them. One of the results of the movement toward trangenic rice and cotton crops (thank you, Monsanto, double thank you, Obama) is that tens of thousands of farmers are going bankrupt (the price they get for their crops declines, the cost of seed increases), with thousands of them committing suicide, and tens of thousands facing destitution. For many, a dowry for a girl is unimaginable anymore. </p>
<p>I am not excusing their actions. But I do think they need to be put in proper context.</p>