Female Feticide and the motherland..

I'm afraid to get started on this topic because its one of the few that gets my blood-pressure from the regular below-normal Dolly-level to dangerously high and raging levels. India Together often posts articles on the topic and its certainly not news to the general Indian or Indian American community what goes on in rural and urban areas that allows the abortion of female fetuses. Sometimes its difficult to be proud of your heritage when at this moment the general Indian population seems to think its perfectly acceptable to place a pricetag on the female child. Of course this isn't an isolated problem. The general position of the female in Indian society has a lot to do with why this practice is acceptable and continues in the ever-so-praised "largest democracy" and country known for its peaceful and spiritual aura. What I was surprised to read was that feticide is more popular amongst the educated in Punjab! What the Washington Post