Indian Gov't to Raise Abandoned Girls

[The Straight Story]

Indian Gov't to Raise Abandoned Girls

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.

Dubbed the "cradle scheme," the plan is an attempt to slow the practice that international groups say has killed more than 10 million female fetuses in the last two decades, leading to an alarming imbalance in the ratio between males and females in India, Renuka Chowdhury, the minister of state for women and child development, told the Press Trust of India news agency in an interview published Sunday.

"What we are saying to the people is have your children, don't kill them. And if you don't want a girl child, leave her to us," Chowdhury told the agency, adding that the government planned to set up a center in each regional district.

"We will bring up the children. But don't kill them because there really is a crisis situation," she said.

On Sunday, police arrested a gynecologist and janitor at a hospital near the central Indian city of Bhopal after the discovery of nearly 400 bones from fetuses and newborns in a pit behind the hospital. It is believed they are the remains of unwanted baby girls.

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[Deja Q]

1. Indian Gov't should tell the men to take responsibility in the first place.

And love girls for what they are: Human.

This is the ultimate in sexism, if it wasn't a warped sort of eugenics. Exterminating what they deem inferior. Speaks volumes, doesn't it?

Talk about a potential Darwin award, they'd hate their own females to their own extinction. That's not very smart, but then they have over 1 billion people anyway...

Talk about crazy, regardless of angle. Especially when this hatred of girls has nothing to do with birth control but because they're deemed inferior for lacking a penis. :eyes:

Holy Nanny state, Batman... A safety net is one thing, but this is mind-bogglingly bizarre.

But that's their government. And unlike offshoring, India isn't otherwise part of the USA.

[Erika]

2. That's like the GOP demanding men to control the birth rate

They don't and won't. Their motto is to criminalize the women and their doctors.

The same thought as to why W wouldn't back a woman Supreme Court Justice.

[Snot Hannity]

3. It is not just men

who force termination of female fetuses or kill baby girls. Women do it too. Men alone cannot be blamed.

Women are not necessarily considered inferior in India. They are considered expensive. From the time a girl hits puberty till forever there are several expenses the parents have to go through in the name of customs and tradition. It is not sexism. It is just plain economics. Female foeticide is practiced mostly by poor people, and some rich people who want keep their wealth together.

Women are not hated in India. In fact, women command a lot of respect in Indian society compared to most of the rest of the world. There are a huge number of women politicians, doctors, lawyers, engineers and scientists in India. Men and women from reasonably wealthy families have equal opportunity in education and employment.