Ten million girls aborted as Indians seek male heirs

This is a sad figure to see. Over ten million girls aborted for no better reason that they are girls. The world continues to deal into the "death cult" attitude.

At least 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India over the past two decades by middle-class families determined to ensure they have male heirs.
The figure is revealed by a survey of more than a million homes published today which found that sex determination in pregnancy and selective abortion accounted for 500,000 missing girls each year.
Termination of pregnancy on the basis of sex was made illegal in India in 1994, but better-off families find ways round the law. Many couples believe their family is unbalanced without a son who will continue the family name and bloodline, earn money, look after the family and take care of his parents in old age in a country which has no social security system.
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The practice of female foeticide has taken the place of infanticide and is extensive in China as well as India, aided by the development of ultrasound. Dr Sheth says: "Female infanticide of the past is refined and honed to a fine skill in this modern guise. It is ushered in earlier, more in urban areas and by the more educated ... A careful demographic analysis of actual and expected sex ratios shows that about 100 million girls are missing from the world - they are dead."

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