WOMEN BECOMING ‘SCARCE’ IN ABORTION-PLAGUED INDIA

NEW DELHI, December 4, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The number of couples opting to abort their baby daughters out of a cultural preference for male offspring has led to an alarming sex imbalance. The number of girls under 6 has already declined from 945 for every 1,000 boys in 1991 to 927 in 2001—a decline that is accelerating as ultrasound technology spreads and amniocentesis results in the deliberate abortion of girls.  As the media are admitting, “The sharpest declines have occurred in the most prosperous areas of the country… where couples have the wherewithal to practice sex-selective abortion,” according to the Washington Post. Reports attribute the “lopsided sex ratio” to the “spread of modern medical technology, particularly ultrasound exams, which allow Indian couples to indulge a cultural preference for sons by using abortion to avoid having girls.”  According to a recent UNICEF study, South Asia “is the only region that defies the global biological norm, with only 94 women for every 100 men, so that 74 million women are ‘simply missing’.” The Post says “as many as 50 million of the missing women are from India.”  To read the Washington Post story see:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61642-2002Dec1.html   For related coverage see:  INDIA’S TOP COURT BANS SEX-SELECTION ABORTION ADVERTISING https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/oct/02100906.html SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTIONISTS QUESTIONED IN INDIA https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/dec/99120904.html