FRONTLINE/World | India: The Missing Girls | PBS

[Truth128]

This is barbaric, May God punish those that practice this evil crime.

[siant666]

Ohh well.....I'm not one to judge India's backward and archaic culture and its faults but I am going to say that if this "sex selection" keeps up then the entire country's population would implode in a couple generations....

[broyomama]

A searching question to ask someone who is (so-called) pro-choice: Should it be legal for a woman to abort a fetus only because it is female? Many will say "no" - thus opposing their view that an abortion should always be the woman's choice.

[SinnFein4ever]

I actually first heard about the problem of gendercide in a documentary on China.

Apparently in China, the problem is that their government only allows couples to have one child.

So a lot of them have ultrasounds to see what it is (even though having an ultrasound for gender is illegal in China), and if it's a girl, they abort it.

In more rural areas of China, often what happens is that the fathers take their newborn baby girls out to the rice paddies and drown them.

[mtrios08]

How would you feel if you're the one that was aborted? did you had an abortion too? ur just lucky that ur parents give you life.

[yodelifyoucan]

i know it's a month old but i'll tell you that at 19 i was very stuck in an abusive relationship, ( stupid) did'nt manage my personal health well, didn't keep jobs and didn't wash my clothes or eat healthy food or some days eat at all (stupid). I abused prescription medication and then i found out i was pregnant (stupid).

[littlepakistan]

Abortion is autorzed in the western world why not then in India.

Stop to be hypocrite!

[Nemomeansnoname]

@littlepakistan abortion in India is not illegal. Having an abortion based on gender is. That's the same in the U.S. and in China and basically all of the Western world. So that's not really being hypocritical.

[Vydio]

These dead children are not "missing". Their scumbag parents know exactly where they are and what happened to them.

[ptalknet]

bollock's, just came back from india, you wanna see whats happening IN Eingland AND America.

[sagar400]

What does that mean? Turning a blind eye to the problem will only exacerbate it. England and America has murderous history and its ongoing but so what?

[were455]

men and women should learn to suppress their sex drive. Or at least take adequate protection. Yet no our "rich" and patriarchal hindu society will only promote more children because they think it increases the virility of the man WHAT A LOAD OF BULL!! These idiots need to be made sterile! I mean if anyone is caught doing female infanticide they should be castrated! This way they just wont have sex!!! Idiots!! ALL OFFENDERS SHOULD BE CASTRATED!! (WITHOUT ANASTHETIC..)!!!!!! THAT LL TEACH EM!!!!!!

[SinnFein4ever]

You TELL them, were455!

Parents who kill their own daughters should be drug out into the street and lynched!

And THEN their bodies should be tossed into a garbage dump!

Let them be treated the same way that they treat their daughters...

Dispose of them without mercy, and then throw them away like trash!

[roevswade]

very sad, women are being hurt and killed by abortion.

[sonureddyin]

I am ashamed of this. It's really a shame I guess we all understand why this is happening "dowry". I have seen educated families and men taking/demanding and being passive about dowry. Please stop this evil practice which will ultimately put an end to this cruelty.

[anticonversion]

This is all due to ignorance and not what religion prescribes...Just as the Roman inquisition of women for witchcraft by the Church was man made social evil, so is this one and a lot of others.

[cutieysl2]

why are they during that its suppose to be illegal and they should put the person in prison i mean more than 20 thousand girl that where suppose to be born did not i mean its really wrong in india women dont have no right to do anything not even feel like they are human beings too what is this kind of world? these man don t have any busniss to do that they c ant decide rather girls or boys should be born or whattttt they deserve to learn a lesson !!!

[shacko27]

Excellent work. May god bless u and give you all success for the intentions of preparing this video. i am with you in my region.

[SkaRocksYea]

that is so sad.

[endofdays5767]

when it comes to killing babies, india is one of the biggest offenders

[TomahawkMissile]

foetus not babies

[endofdays5767]

No, I said it right.

[larsen0966]

Why are we american's, in a country with a constitutional right to an abortions, shocked that another coulture has decided to use abortion to choose gender. American's do it all the time. The travisty isn't gender selection, but abortion.

[BizzyLizzy132]

Same happening in China now.

[cnordholm]

Your logic is flawed. Abortion is a procedure and will occur whether legal or not. The problem here is sexism.

[larsen0966]

Killing any unborn child is a travisty. Your logic is flawed. Murder will happen whether or not it is legal and it is wrong regardless of who dies.

[cnordholm]

I'm not talking about actions, I'm talking about motivation. Sexism - in this case the favoring of male offspring - is the reason these pregnancies are aborted. Without it there would be many fewer abortions, which is something I can support...

[cnordholm]

... I must honestly say, however, that it is much more of a travesty to deny a girl an education and agency than to abort a fetus without a fully developed nervous system. I understand that your presumably absolutist position on this will find this morally represensible, but I not an absolutist and am much more interested in consequences for the fully developed...

[cnordholm]

...I respect your position as long as you decry the use of capital punishment and the killing of animals, however and, again, don't support needless abortions...

[larsen0966]

That logic is so crazy it's not even worth continuing the argument.