Unfortunately, ours has always been a male dominated society. Since ages man has been proud to treat women more as a mere slave than as an equal partner. Though, known by many beautiful names such as better half, fair sex, and devis; women have been abused physically, morally, sexually, economically and politically too.

But the most disturbing dimension that has been added now to the heartless cruelty against women is to kill a female child even before her birth. Science progressed and gave us a device called “ultrasound”, to detect ailments and abnormalities inside human body. Ironically, man is using this device to detect the sex of the child even before it is born. Imagine a mother who agrees to have the fetus exterminated, if it happens to be a female. How cruel???????

I was rather surprised to see the statistics, which show an increase in the number of parents, who willingly present themselves for aborting the female fetus. How can a mother become so hard hearted as to kill her own daughter even before she is born?
The entire society, some foolish religious beliefs and our wretched customs; all are to be blamed for this heartless act.

If you talk to the couples, who willingly exterminate their unborn daughter, the reasons provided by them sound too hollow and fake. Such parents present you with a long list of troubles which they feel starts with the birth of the girl child. They feel that these days it is very difficult to maintain the security of the girl child. It is even more difficult to find a good match for her. And the hardest part they feel is arranging for the dowry and still the demands and agonies never die even after her marriage. All these theories and opinions give. the parents a shiver at the birth of a female child. They find it much easier to kill her in the womb rather than to suffer for the rest of their lives.

But can such an immoral action be justified by these hollow reasons??

Human race can never continue if this shameful act of female feticide continues for long. Even today the male-female ratio in India is adversely tilted against women. How long can men survive without the other half??

The only mantra to save society from this doom is focused education. The parents need to be educated in order to generate public opinion against female feticide. The rules and regulations made by the government will never work unless we come out of our prejudices and develop a rational attitude.