- Feb 5, 2002
- 166,633
- 56,266
- Country
- United States
- Faith
- Catholic
- Marital Status
- Married
- Politics
- US-Others
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India is reiterating ‘the value and dignity of human life’ in light of shocking media reports.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has again condemned the widespread practice of female feticide, contravening legislation banning sex-determination tests and selective abortions that are carried out clandestinely, including sometimes in hospitals.
The CBCI reaction came in the context of shocking recent media reports, including the case of a doctor and his lab technician, who were arrested as part of a probe into sex-selective feticides for allegedly performing more than 900 illegal abortions, and a hospital that was closed after a female baby was found in its waste bin.
“We are shocked by the [news] reports that came out,” Bishop Thomas mar Anthonios of Gurgaon, chairman of the CBCI’s Commission for Women, told the Register Jan. 2.
“The Catholic Church strongly condemns the growing menace of female feticide in Indian society. In spite of prohibition of sexual determination of fetuses by law, recent media reports show that the rate of female feticide is rampant,” the commission said in a Jan. 1 statement.
“It is alarming that the sex of the aborted fetus is found to be female! It shows how the society is discriminating female children and women against their right to equal dignity and status guaranteed by the law of the country,” the CBCI statement said.
Consequently, the commission urged the government “to adopt more stringent measures to prevent such criminal acts.”
Although both recent incidents were reported from southern Karnataka state, Bishop Anthonios, who is the head of the Syro-Malankara Rite Church in the Delhi region, said that the situation is even worse in “the northern states of the country.”
According to a 2021 study published by The Lancet, “Half of the world’s missing female births occur in India, due to sex-selective abortion. 13.5 million female births were missing during the three decades of observation (1987-2016).”
Continued below.
www.ncregister.com
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has again condemned the widespread practice of female feticide, contravening legislation banning sex-determination tests and selective abortions that are carried out clandestinely, including sometimes in hospitals.
The CBCI reaction came in the context of shocking recent media reports, including the case of a doctor and his lab technician, who were arrested as part of a probe into sex-selective feticides for allegedly performing more than 900 illegal abortions, and a hospital that was closed after a female baby was found in its waste bin.
“We are shocked by the [news] reports that came out,” Bishop Thomas mar Anthonios of Gurgaon, chairman of the CBCI’s Commission for Women, told the Register Jan. 2.
“The Catholic Church strongly condemns the growing menace of female feticide in Indian society. In spite of prohibition of sexual determination of fetuses by law, recent media reports show that the rate of female feticide is rampant,” the commission said in a Jan. 1 statement.
“It is alarming that the sex of the aborted fetus is found to be female! It shows how the society is discriminating female children and women against their right to equal dignity and status guaranteed by the law of the country,” the CBCI statement said.
Consequently, the commission urged the government “to adopt more stringent measures to prevent such criminal acts.”
Although both recent incidents were reported from southern Karnataka state, Bishop Anthonios, who is the head of the Syro-Malankara Rite Church in the Delhi region, said that the situation is even worse in “the northern states of the country.”
According to a 2021 study published by The Lancet, “Half of the world’s missing female births occur in India, due to sex-selective abortion. 13.5 million female births were missing during the three decades of observation (1987-2016).”
Why It Happens
Continued below.
Amid Arrests of Medical Staff, Church in India Decries Rampant Female Feticide
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India is reiterating ‘the value and dignity of human life’ in light of shocking media reports.
