Gender-selection abortions spreading in India

[m@tty]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/979111--gender-selection-abortions-spreading-in-india?bn=1&hl=en&geo=us&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgBIAAoBjAOOA5A5OnI7QRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=0jz0YgcON5g&usg=AFQjCNG7i3XV5Ny5HNA4lIuqu3V0ydMIIg%3E

There are estimates that over the past decade alone, more than 10 million unborn females have been aborted across India.

Nowhere is the disparity greater than in Jhajjar, a district of wheat, mustard and grape seed fields in India’s Haryana state where there are only 774 girls for every 1,000 boys. The district is a centre of female feticide, local business leaders, politicians and police officials say.

Gehlot said she sees firsthand the effect of selective abortions in her classes. Of the 59 students she has admitted since January 2010, 43, or 75 per cent, are boys. While some families may simply choose not to send their daughters to school, Gehlot suspects something more sinister is responsible for the skewed figure — female feticide[MURDER].

Saini[city councillor] says he doesn’t consider feticide a crime, or even a pressing social problem.

Disgusting.

[chrisjb]

I cam across some stats when researching for my oral topic that there should be an extra 90 million females alive in Asia and the middle east, but they were never born due to gender selection.