The lust for male child has been ever growing since time immemorial. But, it is hard to digest that even the educated Indians are killing their unborn daughters craving for a male child. And in this mission of theirs, pre-natal tests have played a significant role. Pre-natal diagnosis was introduced to detect any genetic disorder in the foetus before it is born. Contrarily, these tests have assumed a different role of embryo sex determination, which has thrown axe on many unborn girl children. Rational citizens question today whether pre natal tests for sex determination should be there?

India has shown a declining trend in its sex ratio that stands at 933: 1000 males. It means we have 933 girls every 1000 males. This is a dismal picture for time to come. This trend clearly shows that a time will come when there will be no girls.

Girls are less preferred than boys may be because of the rising social crimes against them. Or it may be because marrying a girl is the biggest headache for the parents. And not only marriage, but also her life in her in laws home remains a question. The thought of hefty dowry demands by the in laws on the girl’s marriage is one of the biggest reason that has forced parents to kill their unborn daughters.

There have been instances when newborn baby girls in some backward parts of the country have been dropped in boiling oil by no one else but her parents. While in few cases, parents leave their newborn daughters on the roadside or orphanage without any one noticing it. And in certain instances, parents strangulate their baby girls, so that they don’t raise their voice again. These are few of the cases where pre-natal sex determination is not available to the parents or because of the diagnosis being expensive cannot be availed by them. Whereas ever since, parents have been able to avail them, the girl birth rate has declined, because the unborn girl foetus is destroyed even before her birth.

The tests were introduced to detect any genetic disorder in the unborn child, but today it is increasingly seen as a sex determination measure that has reinforced the existing anti-girl child status. Further the use of ultra- sonography and scanning facilities is misused to end the female foetuses.

May I ask this question to my educated readers, what wrong has a girl done to her parents? Why should a girl be sacrificed only because she is a girl? Why this lust for a male child? Why do mothers forget that they also belong to the fairer sex? Women have always been at the discriminating end when it comes to boys. But, girls are no less than boys. Today, girls stand on equal notch as a boy, than why girls are being eliminated?

In a country, where a female is revered as a deity like Durga or Lakshmi, it is hard to absorb that the same girl child is being sacrificed for lust of a boy child. It is high time stringent laws be implemented to cut short this rising trend of eliminating an unborn baby girl or killing a female child, else the time is not far when girls will be totally removed from the picture of this country. Remember a son is yours till his wife, a daughter is your daughter for life.

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Via: IbnLive