2/20/2011
Sadly women still don’t get the respect they deserve in the world today. There still is the practice of female infanticide which is where there is an abortion of female fetus or the neglect of a female child. It reflects the low status of women and how having a boy could be a better thing for your family because the boy could do more. Women in some parts of the world are still looked as second class citizens and are beneath men. The killing of these girls is a case of genocide or gendercide. There had circumstances by which the girls were dying and it became very suspicious. In some instances some were fed dry, unhulled rice that would puncture their windpipes or some were made to swallow poisonous powdered fertilizer. Others have been smothered with a wet towel, strangled or allowed to starve to death. A woman named Lakshmi had already had one daughter and had birthed another one; she made the decision that she would kill it. She poisoned the baby and then she was buried outside. She was asked why she had killed her daughter and her response was “instead of her suffering the way I do, I thought it was better to get rid of her”. You start to wonder about this being a mercy kill. The world is so bad for women in India that are at low status that it is best for them not to be alive at all. Looking at this situation from the outside makes us think that people are cold blooded and barbaric for killing their own blood but if we were in their shoes, in their life situations, would we consider the same thing. Wouldn’t you think that if they government saw this happening that they would try to make things better for women so that they wouldn’t have to feel that they need to kill their daughters because their life is so terrible? Society has to do better at making women more than second class citizens and having them to be more acceptable in the world.
http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html
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