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India's widespread practice of aborting female fetuses is a "national shame," the prime minister said on Apr 28, insisting the country can no longer ignore the problem if it wants to be a modern nation. Experts say up to 500,000 female fetuses are aborted in India every year because of a deep-rooted cultural preference for male children, who will help support their parents in old age and attract wives with substantial dowries. The gap in the ratio between girls and boys is more extreme in wealthier urban areas where couples want fewer children and the pressure to produce a male increases.
Parents often use ultrasound technology to determine the sex of the fetus and abort females. Such tests have been outlawed in India since 1991, but the rules are frequently flouted. What will the PM do about it?
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The political scenario reflects that there is great cultural discrepancy in the country. Part of the people are still very traditional. But the country is moving toward balanced role of male and female.
What I think he WILL do is what most probably do is just talk about it a lot - either because like most politicians he will only be bothered with appearing to solve the problem - or because he will be stuck trying to convince other politicians/bureaucrats of that mindset. They'll be on the bandwagon about "not caving in to foreign pressure", "not wasting money on no-hope social reforms", "not allowing government to dictate to the average person".
While there are people in Australia shortsightedly having children purely to collect "baby credits", I doubt a "girl credit" system would work in India's situation, or if it does, we'd end up with girl children being abandoned AFTER the reward was collected.
And as everyone knows, wide-scale enforcement of policies that are against the general populations goals and desires just doesn't work. (E.g. Prohibition - small group of people trying to get everyone else to stop drinking.)