From India: a lesson in true feminism
by intern Heather B.
On June 26, 10k students from 12 schools trekked 3 km to promote a timeless message: life is precious.
The march for life in Coimbatore, southern India, bore a unique mission: to be an advocate for the annual 5 million victims of abortion in the world’s most gender-imbalanced country: girls….
Organized by the All India Association for the Abolition of Discrimination Against the Girl Child and Michael Job Centre for Orphan Girls in India, the rally received untiring support from local colleges and schools and was endorsed by international pro-life organizations from the US, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Romania.
During the march, participants walked while holding signs with messages that read, “Do not kill us,” while shouting “Adoption against abortion” and “No discrimination against girl child.”
The event also featured empowering and inspirational speeches delivered by the founders and presidents of the event’s organizers.
The rally was a major public witness against the media-promoted cultural and societal belief that girl children are a financial burden to their families, particularly because of the country’s tradition of providing dowries. Despite laws intended to safeguard against sex-selective abortions by banning ultrasounds to determine the gender of the baby, India is a frequent target for the abortion industry. This strategic discrimination contributes to the country’s stark population imbalance.
As one charismatic participant summarized, “We are proclaiming life to the nations…we are saying that life will come to this generation!”
[HT: Cindy Collins; photo attributions: coimbatorelive.blogspot.com; lifesitenews.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
God bless you, Cindy!! Life to the nations!! Amen!
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Cool, I’m always glad to see that people in other countries and cultures care about life as well, particularly when a certain gender-preference in children has been so ingrained into their culture and customs.
Hey I understand Hillary is in India trying to stop Global Warming says it destroys the planet. No word from her about baby girls being selectively destroyed in India. Oh that is right she accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood so she is proud to be part of Sanger’s “eugenic movement” to get rid of the “unfit” and the “undesirables”. God help the world that we have come to this. All the beautiful girls from India marching for life, because of gender selection abortions. I saw in link article (by Deacons for Life)the estimate of 5 million abortions a year in India but does anyone have an estimate how many girls have been slaughered?
I feel so girl power right now. It’s thrilling. :)
Tragically, I’ve never heard of this march. I’m beginning to detest our ignore-Darfur, ignore-infanticide, ignore-anything that’s not Hollywood media. Grrr…
“Hey I understand Hillary is in India trying to stop Global Warming says it destroys the planet.”
What? Did she pack ice?
A feminist is a person who answers “yes” to the question, “Are women human?” Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men. And it’s certainly not about trading personal liberty – abortion, divorce, sexual self-expression – for social protection as wives and mothers, as pro-life feminists propose. It’s about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience. It’s about women consulting their own well-being and being judged as individuals rather than as members of a class with one personality, one social function, one road to happiness. It’s about women having intrinsic value as persons rather than contingent value as a means to an end for others: fetuses, children, the “family,” men. (Katha Pollitt)
Janet LOL,LOL that is hilarious. Ever heard the saying “we have to laugh to keep from crying”.
This is so tragic, it has the claws of Satan all over it. The U.S Secretary of State needs to prevent Global Warming but not a word about saving the life of pre-born baby girls being selectively destroyed.
Sorry for the double post moderator my computer was acting up.
How are you going to ever become a “liberated feminist” or having any “intrinsic value” when you never had a life and were mutilated in the womb? I think the founding fathers’ said something about us “all being endowed by the Creator with the right to LIFE, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. They definately got the order right because it is impossible to have the last two rights without the first right. The “right to LIVE. I know that the pro-aborts won’t get this, but that’s ok. Going to bed now. Good night and tonight I’ll pray for them and the girls of India.
HA,
Do you honestly think aborting females for the crime of being female respects the “intrinsic value” of women? It seems to me a way to keep women in their second choice second class status in a male dominated society.
Why bother to truly better women’s lives when you can dispose of them instead?
Get real HA, when feminists sought legal and easily available abortion they did not anticipate that they would be forced to turn a blind eye to the ultimate in sexism, the deliberate destruction of females for being female.
Feminists should have heeded my favorite expression: “When the gods want to punish man they answer their prayers sooooo be very careful what you wish for……”
Prolifer L 11:30PM
Feminists got caught with their pants down on this one, big time. Sex selection abortion was not a consideration or concern when feminists went on their abortion rampage.
Don’t try to reason with people who are forced into the situation of double talk and being irrational, as feminists are now where sex selection abortions of females are concerned.
“A feminist is a person who answers “yes” to the question, “Are women human?”
A pro-choice feminist is a person who answers “no” to the question, “Are unborn women human?”
“And it’s certainly not about trading personal liberty – abortion, divorce, sexual self-expression – for social protection as wives and mothers, as pro-life feminists propose.”
The right to abort an unborn girl simply because she is female is more dear to you than social protection for wives and mothers? If you acknowledge the thousands upon thousands of testimonials of women hurt by abortion and the studies proving post-abortive women are a high risk group for substance abuse and psychological problems, wouldn’t promoting social protection for wives and mothers eliminate much of the perceived need for abortion and be an overall positive for women? Or is abortion too precious of a sacrament to be tained by the actual suffering of women?
“It’s about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.”
Aborted girls are expressely being denied justice, fairness and access to the broad range of human experience.
“It’s about women having intrinsic value as persons rather than contingent value as a means to an end for others: fetuses, children, the “family,” men. (Katha Pollitt)”
A woman’s intrinsic value does not hinge on her ability to deny her child’s intrinsic value. It is quite easy to recognize oneself as a complete individual and also an important component of a family unit. The pro-choice perspective (as evidenced in the above quote) pits a woman against her family as her only means to realize her value. The pro-life perspective recognizes the intrinsic value in all human beings and celebrates the value of their relationship to one another.
tained = tainted*
Thanks Janette and Mary for your excellent post. God bless you. HA’s quote about “intrinsic value” is about the most twisted piece of logic I think I have ever heard. How much “intrisic value” does a girl child have who is put in a dumpter of medical waste, later to be incenerated and what is a culture who uses gender selection saying about the “intrinsic value” of all women who just happened to “be lucky enough” to NOT end up in the dumpster. That is so diabolic, like I said earlier it has Satan’s claws all over it.
The number of baby girls killed in India not only includes those killed by abortion, but by other means as well, because not everyone in India can afford an abortion, poor families sometimes kill girl babies by other means: suffocation, poisoning,throwing them in a fire, etc. I saw an article about that a few years ago in a magazine(forget which magazine)