The Abuse, Feticide, and Abortion of the Girl Child in India
India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is calling for a cease to the abuse, abortion, and feticide of girls in India. We have seen this in our trips there. The girls are treated horribly and have little future. Boys are favored and Indians are using ultrasound equipment to detect the sex of babies and they are aborting the girls.
“No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women,” Singh said in an April 28 speech to a national meeting on saving girls. India lives “with the ignominy of an adverse gender balance due to social discrimination against women built into our societal structures,” he said.
“One of the most inhuman, uncivilized and reprehensible practices is the practice of female feticide,” Singh said. “The patriarchal mindset and preference for male children is compounded by unethical conduct on the part of some medical practitioners assisted by unscrupulous parents who illegally offer sex-determination services.”
Christianity is bringing hope to these girls and is addressing this social discrimination against women built into their societal structures (read Hinduism). The ministries that we are working with are rescuing these girls and women and are educating them, loving them, and bringing them to Christ where they have a hope and a future. Hindu society is arrayed against them, but God loves them and wants to rescue them. The Church in Northern India is doing just that and I praise God that we are able to work with them and support what God is doing through them.
Anyone want to join us and help do something about this injustice? We are directly addressing these issues and dealt with this at the conference that we helped lead last month. For $20 a month, a girl child can be rescued and redeemed from a life of abuse and despair and can be brought from the Hinduism that enslaves to the Jesus that sets free. Children are waiting to be brought into these schools and homes because even the Hindus know that the Christians are helping them. We only lack the funds to keep building more schools. Want to help? Email me or leave a comment if you are interested.
I'm not trying to go all Sally Struthers on you, but I'm really motivated to help this little girl and so many more like her:
I would definitely like to hear more about this. Does the money go through your church? My church would, I believe, get behind something like this.
Posted by: Dave Miller | May 07, 2008 at 12:48 PM