CatholicCulture.org reports that Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has expressed grave concern over reports of a steady decline in the number of young women in the country. Speaking on St. Patrick's Day, Ms Patil warned that if the trend continues, it will have “a negative impact on [Indian] society.”
Her warning comes in the wake of a study by international health experts projecting that the number of women in India will be 20% less than the population of men by the year 2030. And what's the reason for this? A heavy prejudice against female children. Paying the dowry to get daughters married off is so expensive these days! So what's the answer? Sex-selection abortions -- the killing of female babies.
It is significant that Ms Patil chose to make her plea at a convention in Chandigarh, the capital of both the Haryana and Punjab states, in which several regions have already reported that there are only 800 girl babies born each year for every 1,000 boys. Even the ZPG advocates should be able to see the democgraphic disaster in the offing.
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