Devaluation of females:
Infanticide has been widespread in India for centuries. R.J. Rummel reported:
“In India, for example, because of Hindu beliefs and the rigid caste system, young girls were murdered as a matter of course. When demographic statistics were first collected in the nineteenth century, it was discovered that in “some villages, no girl babies were found at all; in a total of thirty others, there were 343 boys to 54 girls. ... [I]n Bombay, the number of girls alive in 1834 was 603.”
A Reuters article in 2007-JUL reported on the high level in India of:
Female feticide: This is the practice of using ultrasound instruments to determine the sex of a fetus, in order to abort fetuses that are found to be female.
Infanticide: This involves the actual murder of a newborn female, typically because of her gender.
Widespread neglect of girl children.
Mob violence, including murders, victimizing women believed to be evil sorcerers. 5
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism4.htm
I didn’t say Hindus were perfect, but in this PARTICULAR case there are similarities here to practices in America.
I’m not at all uptight about killing animals for food or for what these people are doing here... (The Israelites also sacrificed animals.)
Now, abortion is another story and it is not what this thread is about, but my opinion of it follows:
Abortion is a ritual murder upon the altar of conceit, performed before an idol of vanity.