Even as fetus girls are still secondary to boys, in India a family will have an ultrasound done to find out the sex of the baby and if it is a girl they will abort her. The families state that the reason for this is because girls are seen as a liability and so they rather have a boy. When a girl is born and reaches the age when it is time for her to get married the family has to pay her husband dowry to marry her and they also have to take care of her if the marriage does not work out the way that it is suppose to. This issue is turning into a social issue because of the lack of girls they believe that the future generations will suffer; if no girls are being born then there will be no women to give birth to babies and eventually the population will die off. Even though this article was predominately about the aborting of females in India and how this is affecting society and the population I look deeper into this article and I relate it with women inequality. The women in India do not have the “choice” to whom they may marry but also sometimes they are married into a family and then sexually exploited. The husbands’ family members may use her for sexual things. They are trying to change this and one step they are taking is teaching young guys that the girls in their class are their equals and hopefully this will in turn change the opinions and ideas as far as giving women more equality. I think this could be good for all countries because even her e in the United States women isn’t completely equal to men.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Blog #12 Getting Equal and Rid of Abortions
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The choice of having a child should be made because a couple wants a baby. No matter what sex the baby is, it should be wanted. Aborting girls just to save the family money in the long run is absurd. Women should not get pregnant if they do not want a child no matter what the sex is. Abortion is a firm of murder, I do believe. And to kill for money is morbid. I know the men are much to blame for the abortion of girls, but both parties are in the wrong at the end of the day.
Naturally, there will be withing a small percentage range, the same amount of boys and girls born every year. This is tampering with mother nature and should be stopped. If any sort of change is to be made, it should be the marriage laws and limits the culture has procured instead of the abortion of babies that have no control over their life or death.
I had an article similar to this and it is true that men dominate the Indian culture and tells the women if they have the right to abort, to have any procedures on them, anything. Traditions for girls all over the world compared to India is the raising girls are expensive, but is it worth killing a life?
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