Friday, November 30, 2012
Where were the girls?
Report from Wordsower Orphanages, Andra Pradesh, India
by Jason Nightingale
Where are the
girls?
And then it
dawned on me and
I was shocked
at my own conclusion.
India has two
medical systems. One National system, free for all, and one private system that
is very
affordable.
According to
Indian law, it is forbidden to tell prospective parents the sex of their child
before birth. This is to prevent abortions of girls and in the National medical
system this law is pretty well upheld. Under the private system this
prohibition is regularly flaunted. Indian doctors perform more sonograms than
any other nation and, consequently, abort more girl babies than any other
nation. Other girls are exposed to death at birth, intentionally underfed and not
cared for, given to temples to be raised as temple prostitutes and sold to sex
traffickers. Jason Nightingale with a tiny one
We are
fortunate to have the girls we have. Life is not easy for a girl in South Asia.
(Wordsower Ministries has 200 orphans in India, and 200 orphans in Haiti.)
