Ads promoting female abortion: Who is to blame the advertiser or the people?

 

Ads promoting female abortion: Who is to blame the advertiser or the people?

Article by Pooja

 

 

As said before, ‘raising a girl is like watering the neighbor’s garden’, defines the mindset not only of the so-called modern India but also of people residing abroad.

 

Lately, in Canada, certain advertisements for ultrasound clinics are promoting abortion of female fetuses. According to the plaintiff Charan Gill, of the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society, ads promoting such ultrasound clinics are running in two Punjabi-language newspapers, the Ajit Weekly and the Hamdard Weekly, published weekly from Toronto, New York, Vancouver and California, and the Indian city of Chandigarh.

 

It’s really, really sad that some newspapers, for sake of money, are misleading the public. The end result is they will tell the sex of the baby so that people that don’t want baby girls can abort it

 

said Gill.

 

However, authorities who run one such type of clinic in Washington were reluctant to give any evidence regarding the ultrasonic data. But an Ottawa-based family rights group asserted that figures show a wide difference between the ratio of girls and boys.

 

We found gender imbalance between boys and girls looking at census data going back to as early as 1990

 

said Mrozek, of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.

 

Generally it is assumed that in India, female feticide is carried out by the illiterate class, hence, hour of the need is to educate those but what kind of education does these ‘literate class’ need who are making such unethical decisions?