AFP reported today that, "Around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys, according to a study published online in The Lancet."
Lifenews.com noted that, "India's top doctor's group is rejecting the analysis by the British medical journal Lancet saying that as many as 10 million sex-selection abortions may have occurred in India since ultrasounds were able to detect the gender of an unborn child approximately 20 years ago."
“At the same time, the physicians group agreed that the use of modern medical technology has been used to further prejudices against girl babies.
“Dr. Narendra Saini, spokesman for the Indian Medical Association, says that the use of ultrasound to detect the gender of an unborn child for purposes of an abortion has waned since the Indian government started a crackdown on it in 2001."
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warned that infanticide or abortion was driving India towards a gender imbalance with alarming social consequences.
Ironically feminists are the biggest proponents of abortion. Yet, abortion tends to kill more girls than boys, especially in third world nations.
In the introduction to Dickens' A Christmas Carol G.K. Chesterton wrote, “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population, or if he is not, how he knows he is not.”
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