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Here\u2019s an article <\/a>from the BBC about abortion. Indian culture prizes boys more than girls, and with expensive dowries to pay Indian couples regard too many baby girls as a disadvantage. With pre natal scanning they are choosing to abort their daughters\u2014simply because they are female.<\/p>\n

What is interesting about this report is that the BBC (quite rightly) want to portray this as a crime. So they have coined a new word with negative connotations: it is \u2018female foeticide\u2019. But of course, any abortion\u2013male or female\u2013is foeticide, so why don\u2019t they use this new word for all their discussions of abortion?<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t any of these folks see the double standard? \u201cAbortion\u201d is a women\u2019s right to choose, while \u201cfemale foeticide\u201d is wrong? Surely, according to the prevailing pro choice arguments an Indian woman has the right to choose \u2018foeticide\u2019 if she wishes? Isn\u2019t it just that liberal Western feminists want to choose \u2018foeticide\u2019 for their own set of reasons, while denying Indian women the right to choose \u2018foeticide\u2019 simply because they regard the Indian womens\u2019 reasons to be somehow more barbaric?<\/p>\n

In fact, for any mother anywhere to choose to kill her unborn child is barbaric. It is just as cruel and barbaric to kill a female feotus in New Delhi for social reasons as it is for a woman in New York to kill her foetus for social reasons. One woman kills a baby because she would prefer a boy and because the girl will demand an expensive dowry. The other kills the baby because it will be detrimental to her figure, her career or her love life.<\/p>\n

At least the BBC have come far enough to regard abortion as foeticide. They should now be consistent and demand its abolition everwhere\u2013not just for Indian women.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"