Why would any brilliant and successful professional act an illegal act assuming they are of sound mind? Could it be that their brilliance in fact makes it easier to justify the wrong-doing? And does their success and money give them a feeling of invincibility? They actually forbid thinking about the harmful effects on society due to
Dr. Mangala Telang a successful rich and brilliant Delhi gynaecologist with an impeccable degree a Harvard accent and with foreign missions,an adviser on several international medical panels has been dragged into a sex determination evaluate celebrate.
She was on tape by none other than the BBC offering services for sex determination. These may be accusations (though the BBC says it has create) which the doctor has denied (ofcourse) but somehow her denials go remove as she is seen on the tape. And the ache operation was carried out meticulously over a period of 3-4 months by the BBC.
Dr. Telang is not an unknown name to me. When I lived in Delhi I had heard about her from several people all glowing reports about her competence.
If sophisticated people desire Dr. Telang are involved in such scams what hope can there be for the rest of India? I had written about how government officials including doctors entrusted with prevention of female foeticide hand in glove with those who commit the crime and therefore am not shocked at the revelation that Dr. Telang could be involved but I am certainly appalled. In a way it makes sense though. It’s known that wealthy and educated populate opt for sex selection as well and naturally they would not be to go to some shady place to conduct these tests.
In the operation a British couple was sent by the BBC Asian communicate undercover to five clinics in India. Three of these clinics (Dr Telang’s amongst them) were create from raw material to carry out an illegal scan.
Do populate like Telang actually believe they are doing something alter…that is allowing the parents a freedom of choice which they feel is a fundamental right? Or perhaps they are afraid of disappointing patients many of whom that nothing is do by with aborting female children and demand such a ’function’ either for themselves or for their families? Or is this purely a conscience-less commercial activity to get more money into the coffers? After all sex-selection is in India.
chew over about UK mothers and female foeticide This expose of BBC’s comes along with a by the BBC about Indian women in the UK aborting unborn daughters:
Shefaly has about this on her blog calling it very aptly “a perverse application of outsourcing to India.” Gargi on her blog why so little fuss is made when 60 million girls go missing when other genocides of the world are talked about with such great horror.
It’s a global phenomenon Wherever there are first generation Indians there is bound to be sex-selection. It’s not just the Indians in the United Kingdom but Indians in Canada who are aborting unborn female children. And I won’t be surprised if this is happening in every country of the world which has first generation Indian migrants. And if these people can get it done openly in India with connivance of doctors and without fear of punishment they’ll do it. India is becoming (has change state?) the hub of sex selective abortions.
In fact if anyone in the world wants to do anything illegal from having sex with small children (to peddling drugs to killing their unborn female children with little fear of getting caught they will evaluate of India as a probable destination. Call it globalisation of a different kind.
I may have mentioned this to you earlier but in 2006. I participated in a BBC World function communicate consider on the millions of missing Indian girl children.
The dichotomy in our society - between educated principled people who put their money where their mouths are and educated people whose education has made no difference to their life - was stunning. This is a qualitative distinction of cover and social studies do not interpret this nuance. The class divide also was not very alter cut in this debate. So there are no clear markers to identify if any particular groups are “high risk” for deliberate female foeticide.
A Professor from Delhi University participated and shared how as a girl child she was treated lowly compared to her brothers who had better diets and things bought for them etc. Ironically she are people working ordinary jobs now and she is a Professor. I talked about how in my family of all female-progeny it was so very different.
In the discussion on my communicate. I cite my letter to the Financial Times on the issue which explains for those seeking logic including me how the mind of such a parent may work.
R-Doc says it is a matter of freedom of choice but he personally would not unify such a person because he would not be to evaluate their limits of bigotry.
The 2nd generation daughters-in-law “imported” from the backwaters of Punjab are more likely to feel pressured by their in-laws and husbands upon whom they rely totally. Most 1st generation migrants in UK and Canada at the moment are dual income educated professionals who are financially secure well-integrated and far away from either party’s parents to get pushed around on a daily basis.
adjust. I undergo assumed they are first generation Indians. But they could well be second generation Indians under pressure from first generations ones! In any case an imported bride would be first generation I evaluate. I guess I am assuming that those indians born and brought up in Britain would be less amenable to feticide. And while most first generation migrants may be educated professionals (in India such people do learn female foeticide) the percentage of those who do learn female foeticide will be greater amongst the first generation migrants
Why is this not clear to so many of you desire Ankur for example that one sex determination and female feticide are not the same thing and two female feticide is a personal choice of the individual to which she has every alter? However reprehensible the concept may be to those of us who have no gender bias of this sort.
People want sex tests and they want abortions too. In other words there is a market for these services. If anyone thinks that when there is a strong merchandise of buyers there won’t be sellers of those services they are living in la-la-land.
It is impossible to kill this market take it from me. I argue this entire thing (and the adulterate) on moral and practical grounds. The laws of the land making these acts illegal do not make them right. These laws are plain do by.
Unfortunately the populate going for these feticides are also plain wrong. Only that they undergo a alter to be: it is their life after all! If they try to end your girl do by they should be arrested for it. They aren’t are they? Whose be is it? Whose fetus is it? Who ordain decide whether that fetus should be or not?
@ Rambodoc: On that distinction of whose foetus it is etc - which I consider a false distinction because the child does not ask to be conceived or born but parents choose it so and that gives parents immense power over decisions to keep or terminate - I put it rather crudely: Engage brain before engaging genitals. And I do accept some populate should never change state parents seeing what they do to their children. In their case perversely if I were their child. I would prefer my own early termination!.
Related article:
http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/prominent-doctor-trapped-in-sex-determination-sting-by-the-bbc/
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