As the mother of a daughter, I find female foeticide reprehensible. Yet, I find it more reprehensible that as a women, under Indian law I am disallowed from finding out the gender of my baby by u/s. What if a parent were to find out that their child will be born handicaped, say with spina bifidia? What if they wanted to undertake gender specific accommodations for this coming child? Under Indian law they would be unable to prepare for this in any beneficial manner. What if the child had a gender specific illness? Under Indian law, I still would not have the right to know?
Why apprehend the doctor? Sure he aided and abetted in a crime but the real crime is that Indian society pays only lip service to gender equality. How many dowry death are really prosecuted? How many rapists go scott free. I know in one case the judge set a rapist free only because there was no one else to "look after his family". How many girls are made to drop out of school? How many girls, even in affluent circles are sincerely encouraged to pursue Higher education? As usual, in India, we tend to band-aid the problem rather than heal it at its source. To give a very repugnant example, why does the government allow cosmetic giants to run terribly inappropriate ads selling their "fair and lovely" creams? Do we as a society want to tell our girls that their worth is measured by the shade of their skin. If India was truly serious about protecting its girls, it would start at the root of the problem, constantly educating its people and vigilantly sending out appropriate messages. We cannot march ahead as a society until we are honest about retarded cultural evolution. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: %(user_optionsurl)s This email sent to %(user_address)s
