In the streets and villages of India, you won't find many women. Each year, female babies are killed or aborted, and many girls are just murdered. Why? Because the gender prefrence in India is men. Raising a girl in India costs money, while boys bring in the money. If a woman is married, her family pays for it. If they do not, the woman may be tortured or even burned to death. If a woman is pregnant, she will be presured to get an ultrasound, to determine the gender of the baby, even though this is illegal. If the baby is a boy, the family rejoces. But, when its a girl, the woman is told to abort it. If she does not, she might be tortured, have the baby aborted by force, or killed. I think this is a terrible thing. No one, let alone an unborn child, should be killed because of their gender. All of this is illegal, but in an interview with the man tasked of stopping this, the Indian governments Secratary of Heath, he did not seem very keen on stopping it. He dogged the question "Do you think that this should be illegal? Letting women be killed like that?" He responded with: "I think you answered your own question." He had an uncomfortable smile on his face. In my opinion, this should all be stopped imediatly. I am sad that anyone would even think of doing these things, but I am greatful for the few kind souls that have opened orpahages for these young girls and babies. Many of the babies come in half dead and two or three days old. This is a terrible thing to do, and anyone who presures there wives or even kills the babies for them, should themselves be killed.
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