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Female Feticide
It estimated that more than ten million female fetuses have been illegally aborted in India. Researchers for the Lancet journal based in Canada and India stated that 500,000 girls were being lost annually through sex selective abortions. My speech today is on the Female Feticide in India and I am antagonistic towards it. This act is not only illegal but it also causes tremendous misery to the society of women. Losing a child and being treated, as dirt by the family is disturbing and can lead to suicidal tendencies, and lead the female form to annihilation.
Feticide is the practice of the destruction of a fetus, which the mature society can bare. But Female feticide is destroying the fetus because the maturing child is a female. This not only denies the right to live for a woman but also robs them from their right to breath. I fear God and aborting a child is murder, committing murder is a felony. God made everyone the same, hence, I infuriate because of the deep yearn for a male child. It takes a reprobate heart to kill and if such hearts live among our society, we will no progress. An inferior mind will never lead this country to greatness. The social evil which we today have labeled ‘Female feticide’ in an old age tradition in some areas of the rural India which is a mere connotation of the sinful act of murder. If not the Lord fear our constitution, part three article fifteen states, ‘Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.’ And female feticide is an act of discrimination. Discrimination on the bases of sex. This clearly portrays India as a country that has used technology to move backwards. What we see is the culmination of centuries of gender disparity leading to the formation of a fiercely patriarchal society, which believes that the female child is nothing more than a temporary burden. Even today, in this great nation, which we proudly call to be ‘rapidly developing’ we are unable to escape the clutches of this age-old evil.
The thought of a male child enhances the social status is blather. Manu, the Hindu Law Giver, denied autonomy to women, and advised that women should be guarded day and night. But our very own traditions have made us do such appalling things. The dowry system is also crucial in the preventing the birth of a child. The thought of losing money to a doctor doing illegal deeds seems more satisfactory than losing money to the daughter’s marriage. The only reason for decreasing women population is killing of girl fetus before birth. Owing to the advancement of science and technology and subsequent development of ultrasonic technique, it is very easy to know the sex of the fetus within few months of its formation, so that couples who do not want to have girl child abort the fetus. In other words, they get their child murdered in the womb. But what people tend to forget it that females are a beautiful form of life created by the greatest body in the universe. The female form has shouldered our world throughout generations and now they have taken this world to a place where they can achieve as much as any man. In India, we have taken this form of life for granted. Though across centuries women like Soniya Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Vishwapriwa Iyengar and so many more have made India the country it is today, yet we have people who do not respect this form of life. Admiration is what these women deserve. Veneration is what these women deserve.
A world where democracy is reverence, a world where culture is admired, a world where enterprising is par excellence. But in this very place we have lost respect for women. Women are treated worse than a plebeian, why are women treated like dirt? Abortion has not only lowered the standard of women in India but also increased the human trafficking levels in the regions where there is a lack of women. A woman bears the future generations and this issue of female feticide is in a way dawning the apocalypse. Girls are still considered liability in India. Parents still prefer a boy than a girl. In majority of families, boys are given better treatment than girls. Boys receive better education. This trend can be seen in every class. This is heinous. If we want India to move advance, we have to forget this redundant mindsets. If we want to among the best, we have to think like them. This primitive reasoning has to go. This problem cannot be sorted out by education or better economic condition only. It requires awareness because it is embedded deep in our psyche. We still believe that only sons carry our genes, in other words our ‘Khandan’ can only be carried by boys. This type of orthodox mentality can be countered only by proper awareness.
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rhythm (student)
