Pakistan Newborns Dumped

[fender62]

it makes for hard reading considering were in the 21 century, what a primitive culture and what is their government doing about it, read the bit about the imam...shocking
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5678025/Hundreds-dead-newborn-girls-dumped-garbage-piles-Pakistan-year.html

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// I read it as the girls giving birth, as opposed to the
babies. ///

I don't think that the girls have any say in the matter, mothers or not.

[tamborine]

Compliments of NHS?

https://www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/illegal-abortions-for-wrong-sex-babies/

“....Does the law say anything about abortion on the grounds of gender?
No. But agreeing to an abortion on the grounds of the foetus’ gender alone, without a medical reason to support it, would not be viewed as fulfilling the medical criteria required by law....”

[Old_Geezer]

The answer is always education, bringing enlightenment to future generations, allowing them to drop previous values/beliefs. Society falteringly moves forward, with some side steps, some detours down blind alkeys, even some backwards steps; but over time we have faith the direction tends to be forward.

[sp1814]

Hear here O_G.

[tamborine]

Custom in India & Pakistan deems dowry is paid for girls in marriage to boys. In UK the dowry is often a UK passport.

[Peter Pedant]

Didnt read the article
they have been doing this for years - at least a thousand - and probably pre-islamic

Nigh the only one who's read the Koran will confirm that somewhere in it the prophet say s- do not bury the girls in the sand - a reference to forbidding female infanticide

[Peter Pedant]

// Custom in India & Pakistan deems dowry is paid for girls in marriage to boys.//

there is also comething called a bride - price ( dowry in reverse )

[Peter Pedant]

// “....Does the law say anything about abortion on the grounds of gender? //

yeah it says you cant do it.....

very uncommon for the law to say - oops dont know - not sure about that one ( lacuna)

[vetuste_ennemi]

Exposed on mountain sides in ancient Greece. Stopped doing that now, I think.

Meanwhile, in the West, infanticide has been modernised by, firstly, removing the gender bias and, secondly, re-branding the practice as "a woman's right to choose".

[hereIam]

Barbaric uncivilised peasants and some idiot thinks they are heading back to a primitive age - they never bloody left it !!!