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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/074E1CBA-E69D-49FB-A6BF-0191572101B1/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/bhai1/">bhai1</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.infanticide.org/history.htm" title="http://www.infanticide.org/history.htm">www.infanticide.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">It is clear that the onerous costs involved with the raising of a girl, end eventually providing her an appropriate marriage dowry, was the single most important factor in allowing social acceptance of the murder at birth in India.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Females were only consumers and a serious financial burden to a poor family. They were therefore often killed at birth</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/female+infanticide./" rel="tag">female infanticide.</a></div>http://www.infanticide.org/history.htmMon, 25 Feb 2008 18:09:48 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/29AB5BD8-4CB6-4F6E-9434-6069C9CE65FD/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/bhai1/">bhai1</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:4gki-pZbOwUJ:www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/new_links/eff.pdf+female+foeticide+statistics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11" title="http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:4gki-pZbOwUJ:www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/new_links/eff.pdf+female+foeticide+statistics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11">209.85.175.104</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="4" face="Times"><SPAN><DIV><NOBR><I><B>Eradication of <B>Female</B> <B>Foeticide</B></B></I></NOBR></DIV> </SPAN></FONT> <FONT size="3" face="Times"><SPAN> <DIV><NOBR><I>Delivered at Patiala on December 17, 2006</I></NOBR></DIV></SPAN></FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV><NOBR><I><B>Justice Y.K. Sabharwal,</B></I></NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR><I><B>Chief Justice of India</B></I></NOBR></DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV><NOBR>This practice, which is so unfortunately prevalent in our country, is truly</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>the most horrific form of gender discrimination. In a society that has consistently</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>devalued women, their only fault is their gender, and baby girls are throttled,</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>poisoned or drowned in a bucket of water. This is <B>female</B> infanticide. Of course,</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>of those baby girls who were never even allowed to come into this world, there is</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>no evidence and the abortion of pregnancies post an illegal sex determination is</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>yet another course that is adopted to prevent a baby girl from getting her due in</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>the world. Indeed, gender discrimination in our society is so entrenched, that it</NOBR></DIV> <DIV><NOBR>begins even before a girl is born.</NOBR></DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/female+foeticide/" rel="tag">female foeticide</a></div>http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:4gki-pZbOwUJ:www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/new_links/eff.pdf+female+foeticide+statistics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:48:13 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/2B2D874C-F652-4F28-8E37-D2416151E130/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/bhai1/">bhai1</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.infanticide.org/history.htm" title="http://www.infanticide.org/history.htm">www.infanticide.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Despite the clear theistic prohibitions against child-murder by the three major Western religions, female infanticide has been for centuries a prominent and socially acceptable event in two related areas of the world: India and China. Even today, the extent of the problem is measured in frightening proportions: "at least 60 million females in Asia are missing and feared dead, victims of nothing more than their sex. Worldwide, research suggests, the number of missing females may top 100 million. "</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">It is clear that the onerous costs involved with the raising of a girl, end eventually providing her an appropriate marriage dowry, was the single most important factor in allowing social acceptance of the murder at birth in India.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Females were only consumers and a serious financial burden to a poor family. They were therefore often killed at birth</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/female+infanticide./" rel="tag">female infanticide.</a></div>http://www.infanticide.org/history.htmMon, 25 Feb 2008 17:37:26 GMT