Doctor offered deals to abort unwanted girls

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3/30/06 | Peter Foster

[wideminded]

A doctor and his assistant have each been jailed for two years in India for using ultrasound scans for sex-selective abortions.

Dr Anil Sabsani, a radiologist, and his assistant, who was not named, were trapped in the northern state of Haryana after the authorities were told that his clinic was offering illegal sex-determination tests.

Dr Sabsani told a pregnant woman sent in undercover that he would reveal the sex of her child for an additional fee of 1,500 rupees (£20).

After the woman paid the money, Dr Sabsani was caught on a hidden video camera confirming that the unborn child was female, saying: "But that can be taken care of."

Doctors and social activists welcomed the convictions, the first in India, as a breakthrough in the fight against the practice that accounts for the death of up to 500,000 female foetuses every year.

Passing judgment, the court in Palwal said: "Because of the illegal acts of people such as Dr Sabsani, the sex ratio is declining day by day."

Indian census figures show that male-female sex ratios have been declining steadily from 945 females per 1,000 males in 1991 to 927 per thousand in 2001.

In some parts of Haryana and the Punjab, where the killing of female foetuses is especially rife, the ratio is as low as 800 girls per 1,000 boys, leading to a chronic shortage of brides and other social ills.

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Birth records at a clinic in the village of Jahkoli showed that 38 females and 44 males had been born in the year 2004-5, about average for India as a whole.

However, in 2005-6, after an ultrasound machine was installed in the nearby town of Rudraprayag, the birth register in Jahkoli showed 61 deliveries, of which only 14, or 22 per cent, were girls.

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[Jeff Chandler]

So sex-determination tests are illegal, but are abortions illegal?

[caddie]

Subhumans.

[television is just wrong]

So, they will suffer the same fate as china? Lots of men, No women to have families with?

The population will begin to die out...

[S0122017]

So, they will suffer the same fate as china? Lots of men, No women to have families with? The population will begin to die out...
At which point it will become profitable again to have daughters! See, it all works out.

[Giant Conservative]

Killing preborn baby girls... killing preborn baby boys... feminism is murder. There's no such thing as a good version of feminism: never was. Its been poison for as long as it has existed.

[cgk]

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...

[linda_22003]

This article is about India, and feminism is the exact opposite of the problem here; the problem is that women HAVE no status in their society, so having a girl is a negative thing.

[mcvey]

It is not the status of women that is at question. The fact that abortion is used to end the life of any child is. Any society has its disadvantaged groups. And, in a collectivized society, those groups can be eliminated for the "greater good."

Ergo, the free and untrammeled use of abortion can be used by any one to end the life of a female fetus on the grounds that it is female. I would bet all the money I have that this has happened more than once in the United States.

And, where the Indians have at least made it a crime to do so, we have not. Nor, under Roe, could we. The fact that feminists have made possible the elimination of female fetuses on grounds of their gender is a striking internal contradiction within their position.

So, in a society such as India, where most women have little status, the restriction of abortion is one of the few protections that are offered to women. Feminism as a radical, anti-capitalist, anti-property, anti-individualist, anti-tradition movement eventually leads to the loss of female status as true blue feminists relentlessly attack the norms of society.

The end result, of course, is that women lose status as they become the play things of collectivist action.

McVey

[Giant Conservative]

Seriously, isn't it a crime to destroy a Bald Eagle egg?

[Giant Conservative]

The fact that feminists have made possible the elimination of female fetuses on grounds of their gender is a striking internal contradiction within their position.

Where a philosophy system apparently has an internal contradiction, the odds are that there is no contradiction with what those who follow the philosophy actually believe.

Feminists lie.

They have no more empathy for female babies who are slaughtered pre-natally than they have for male babies killed in the same way: it's zero in both cases.

The feminist religion of the Nazi-esque uber-frau finds its core in the opportunity to kill innocence and all that is good. Any other consideration is inevitably hierarchically demoted to second place.

[Coleus]

Seriously, isn't it a crime to destroy a Bald Eagle egg? >>

YES! most definitely. And if you saw my profile, that's an actual sign from a turtles nest in Florida. Any interference with the mother turtle coming out from the ocean to when the turtles are hatched, is both a state and federal offense.