A New Kind Of Terrorism

I'm very sure that i dont have the need to define "terrorism" to everyone of you. We all have a very fair idea as to what it is, and why it is occurring in our society. We all had been affected and influenced by it somehow. It is present throughout the globe. And I hasten to point out that no one of us could ever say "Oh terrorism is not present in my country" as much as we would like to. And also I don't want to show you the catastrophic events that had taken place due to terrorism either because they are all sad enough, and we all have witnessed the grim effects of it first hand.

There had been all kinds of ways in which terrorists have tried to disrupt harmony in society using shear violence against people. These usually pertain the use of weaponry, abductions and assassinations. We all know this.

But my goal today was to bring to light a new kind of act of terrorism, against a particular gender only. This merciless act it slithering its way through society, and the grim effects of it are already seen. I saw this issue being addressed in an Indian t.v show (satyamev jayathey) recently.

This act of terrorism is called female foeticide. If in case you were wondering what this was, let me explain it to you. Simply put, after conception, the sex of the fetus is determined, and IF it is a female, then the fetus is aborted. This is a first class act of sex discrimination.
And this is happening all over the world, and as statistics prove that it occurs mostly in India.

Why did I label this as terrorism? Well there are two very sinister parts to this act which depict similar characteristics of terrorism.

Firstly, this abortion happens without the consent of the mother. Shockingly the husband and his family are the first culprits who organize this crime. Because if you think about this would any mother terminate her pregnancy, just because of the gender of her child that she is bearing?. Once a woman in a family is identified to be pregnant, she is taken to the hospital by her husband and his family, to determine the gender of the fetus. And if it happens to be a female they terminate the pregnancy. The woman is made to go through this abortion forcefully. Even if she declines to abort the fetus. If she retalialtes she is violently beaten and then made to comply. If she retaliates further, she is deceived by her husband that they are going to visit the hospital for a regular check up, and the woman is made unconscious and then the baby is aborted. And a woman has to go through this cycle each time she bears a female child!

Secondly, this had become a very profitable business for people in health care. Medical professionals (obviously not all) who are money hungry, have introduced new schemes where they will conduct an ultrasound (to determine the sex of the fetus) and immediately an abortion if it is it is a female, which would cost relatively lower to people who wish to do this. How convenient!

To give you a better understanding, this type of practice had created a Whopping 244 million USD industry! And further more, an esitmated 15 million girls were not born in India in the last decade. And the ratio of girls to boys is 927:1000

Apart from some of the money hungry medical professionals, why would any one want to do this? To a woman?

The answer is gruesome. It is simply the laziness for bringing up a girl. She needs to be educated, nourished, loved and cared. Well, yes that's the same case for bringing up a boy too. But their is an underlying difference, or as it seems. Which is that the girl is going to get married any way and be away from the family, so why bother to go through all these burden for someone whose going to leave, and to add to that getting her married is another burden itself. Whereas a boy would remain in the family, and also ultimately provide for the family when his time comes to earn.
This is the "philosophy" by which people who commit this organized crime abide by.

Well they do not see the bigger picture, if this continues they would not find a woman for their son to marry and continue their generation and that is what is happening right now. Their is depletion of women for men to get married to.

Apart from this, this is sex discrimination, murder (because the abortion is taking place without the mother's consent) and the physiological and psychological pain that woman had to go through is daunting. Also the medical professional who assist in this crime are ruthless and these people involved should be pusnished to the fullest extent by the law. But the sad truth is that not even one license of a medical professional was cancelled by the government of India who had committed this crime.

But there is some light of hope in this darkness. In Kerela the sex ratio is more than one. That is there are more females than males since the census prove from 1901. And Kerela also has been helping several NGOs to counter this issue. (at least quite pleasing to know that there are still some intelligent people around) and several other nations are taking this matter seriously to counter this ongoing problem.

I thought that women only had to fight during their lives, but now reality slapped me hard showing that they literally have to fight to be born. And women who conceive female children had to fight to keep their children alive. When we think of warriors we tend to think of men. NO. It's the women. And hats off to them.

I also thought how ironic is it of us to think of the human race going to be extinct due to global warming, and how we forbid same sex marriages. Because if we continue to commit this crime ultimately, men would have to marry men and which would obviously lead to extinction.

You find my logic hard to digest?

Women are precious. We need them. You and I would not be here if not for them.

Works cited

Wikipedia


Darussalam, Brunei. Female feticide in India. N.p., 2010. Web. 31 May 2012.