Catholic Culture reports (without giving a source) that in Karnataka state, southern India, a young mother who gave birth to a second girl child was murdered by her husband. Assuming the truth of the report -- and Catholic Culture is usually quite reliable -- this is just another example of the ancient against female children found not just in India but the majority of Third World cultures.
This prejudice is so deeply rooted in Indian society that thousands of newborn girls are abandoned -- left to die -- by their parents every year. Just today the body of a newborn girl was found floating in a plastic bag in a suburb of Bangalore, the capital of the Karnataka state.
That's what happens, all to often, to the girl children who are born. Because of the same gender prejudice, the Indian government has reported that more than 10 million girls are now "missing" because of sex-selection abortions. Although sex-selection abortion is illegal, unrestricted access to abortion makes it easy for parents to disguise their motivation for the procedure.
This unconscionable practice is also known in Indian communities in the U.S.A., Canada and Europe. Wherever abortion is freely available, there are always those who will use it to avoid having "unwanted" children, no matter the reasons for not wanting them.
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