FEMALE FETICIDE AND INFANTICIDE

In today's society "the modern Herod is anyone who practices female feticide and infanticide, who limits religious freedom and abuses human rights" said Oswald Gracias, president of the Indian Bishops' Conference and archbishop of Mumbai, on the Feast of Holy Innocents.news

There is a practice of dowry in India. Actually the marriage in India is happening like a bargain in the market. The parents of the bride has to pay dowry to the bridegroom in order to get marry their daughter. If the dowry is not given as it was agreed, the bride will be sent to her parent’s house even after the child bearing. Actually there is a saying in India, even a king will become a beggar if he has five female children. There are millions of cases in the court regarding murders, suicide, divorce connected with the dowry problem in India. To avoid these things people tend to kill the female baby after its birth or in the womb of the mother. It has become common in some parts of India. A female child is considered as a curse to a family because the family has to pay a lot for the marriage of the girl.

We must go to the root of the problem to solve the problem. To save the children from female feticide and infanticide it is necessary that the dowry system must be eradicated. Even if there is law against the dowry system the practice of this kind is common among the people. People must be enlightened not to give dowry for the marriage. If the dowry system is eradicated then there will be a difference regarding the sex. As a result there will not be female feticide and infanticide.

And it is important that those who do female feticide and infanticide must be arrested and should be punished.