Wednesday, March 14, 2007

And then we call ourselves HUMANS...

This is a crude essay or excreta of a reckoned thought, which was provoked out of a question asked by a friend on my forwarding him a mail on abortion rules, its seriousness and its violation.
After he asked my views on abortion i mulled over the subject and came up with it.
Who is aborted? A girl child or a boy child? Silly question actually, Coz Its always or 99% of the times a girl child, we can say that by asking one more question. Why do we at all go for abortion? When the child growing in the foetus of female body is not wanted anymore...and when is it not wanted anymore? 99% of the times when its a girl child, or when the pregnancy is without consent of both parents, will not touch this subject for now..

Why do people abort a girl child? Because they think that a girl will be a botheration on them in their future... Or dowry issues in some places, or god knows what.... But same people who want a boy child and say if they get one, will look for a girl for their boy to marry him,for they don't have the courage to keep their boy unmarried. Why do they want him to marry? So that their foliage is not hampered...Everyone wants a boy child and then they want a happy family like they have one and so want to make him marry a girl. But then how do we get girls in society whom these boys can marry..No one thinks of that..only that all of them want a boy child, with the beautiful thought that the boy child will give them all pursuits of this globe and all pleasures, will earn for them, will stay with them in their future, which girls cant in their perspectives...That is the stupid trend of this globe that when a girl marries a boy she has to go to his place and take care of his parents, and no one thinks of her parents...All that she can do is visit her parents once in a while...Has God made this custom, No.....we and our society have made this stupid custom... But each one of us is aware of this fact, that the trend has changed and in fact the boy child betrays his parents and isolate them in the future, coz he is not comfortable with his parents or privacy is an issue or whatever, but still we want boy child..This big and serious issue what people have been worrying about is the girl to boy ratio which is deteriorating day by day...And the result is- There are states like kerela where in girl to boy ratio is 1065:1000 but then rest of places have real pathetic parametric statistics of 793 in punjab, 820 in haryana, 845 in himachal pradesh and 865 in delhi so on.. And then we have a new problem of trafficking of women for marriages and emergence of polyandry. Its so strange that the life expectancy, the way it has been programmed by god is same for a boy and a girl but due to this human intervention, how badly it has been affected...Anyways will get back to the subject, i want to take up in this essay...
Abortion in itself is a hallowing boon contrived by some scientists which has turned out baneful due to human interventions.. Very few amongst us realise the seriousness of the consequences of those coupla gratifying moments... I am alive, we all are alive coz our parents dint kill us before our births.. It is about a life..How can a human be so cruel with another human..
whether its a girl child or a boy child, to kill a child is a crime. Just because it doesn't have any power to resist or take decision, we don't get right to snatch away the right of its life from it with some stupid argument. Government of India has implemented the ACTS for the same but still we have the sex ratios deteriorating day by day.. Today, reports of female foetuses found in drains, or dug from dry wells or floating in lakes or eaten by dogs are the headline news. How can we be so cruel with sth that is a part of us. This is a black spot on our being and calling ourselves HUMANS...

2 comments:

Malay Maniar said...

Amen.
The disturbing fact is that the problem of mindset of people isnt changing as rapidly as it should. And I won't be very wrong to say that this skewed ratios are more "skewed" in higher and lower strata of society; lower class due to seemingly lack of income source, higher class due to patriarchal and egoistic society norms and social status.
Lets hope that better sense prevails.

The Psycho Blogger said...

th biggest mistake of ppl actually is in thinking they r better than othr creatures coz they cn reason n stuff. th biggest sins r always done gy mankind, nt by ne1 else.