Letters to the Editor
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Two things
First, maybe this will serve to control India's burgeoning population. If they are stupid enough to do that inadvertently by murdering all their future women, fine. It's a net benefit in the end.
Secondly, the noise and thunder of all the pro-choice feminists about selective abortion in India is hypocritical in the extreme. If you think abortion is just fine and dandy, all the time, even late-term, whenever the woman wants it, you cannot then turn around and say abortion is "murder" when another culture practices abortion in a way that reflects that culture's mores as opposed to ours. Abortion is either a woman's right or it is murder--it can't be both. Abortion shouldn't be a sacrament for an American woman but murder when an Indian housewife does it.
We practice abortion because our culture is pathologically unfriendly to children and single mothers, extended families do not support each other, and women, rightly considering the circumstances, view children as a literally unbearable liablity. Can anybody explain to me why this makes our abortions "better" than those of Indians, who abort fetuses because of a slightly more direct concept of misogyny?