I watched this episode a couple Friday night ago and the images and stories that I heard and saw are still haunting me. So many emotions well up within me when I consider the fact that 50,000 female unborn children are being aborted EVERY month in India. It is estimated that since 1980 approx. 40 million girls are missing in India due to sex selected abortions, neglect, or murder. To kill a baby because she is a girl is mind boggling to me and makes me irate, disgusted, sad, and broken hearted to name a few. What happened to God created ALL people equal?
What is shocking to me is that this is such a common practice in India and is widely accepted. There seems to be NO enforcement of the current laws to prevent the abortion of a baby simply because it is a girl. It breaks my heart to see the look on the face of the relative who holds the baby who was just born after she discovers it is a girl. She doesn't have to say a word, her face says it all....disappointment, sadness, etc. I understand that girls cost a family a lot of money when it comes time to marry, but to have money (the dowry) be the motivation to kill that child is up hauling. So sad that money has taken a higher place than a human life that God created!
In part 2 of the video below I was shocked as I watched the undercover sting happen and the doctor reports with great sadness that the baby is a girl and that the best option would be to abort the baby. Since the mother is so far along they will not be able to perform an abortion, but for more money he will give her drugs to induce a miscarriage. To kill this baby girl it will cost between 60,000 to 70,000 rupees ($1,114 to 1,300 US dollars). The entire scene plays out as such a common practice, which it is, and no emotion attached to what is being suggested....to kill a precious baby! Thankfully these two doctors faced charges, but this appears to be a rare occurrence.
In the second video I was encouraged to see so many happy little girls safe in the Unique Home. I am so thankful for homes and orphanages in India that give a mother who makes the choice to carry her baby girl to term the option of having a safe and loving place for that baby to go if they are not able to care for her. I find it inspiring how as an orphan herself she established this home to love and protect these girls. She knows all too well what each of these girls have faced. To think that most of these children arrive "half dead" because of the drugs the mother has been given to try to kill them is heart crushing. What a blessing it is to have a women who lives her life bringing these girls back to life and giving them the love and respect they deserve. It is understandable why she doesn't allow the children to be adopted out, because she doesn't want the possibility of anything more harmful to happen to these girls. It thrills me that she teaches the girl their value and that they have a choice. It is sickening to think that thousands of girls in India are shown from birth (if they even make it that far) and throughout their life that they have no value and are only good for producing a boy child for a man. It is so easy living in America to take for granted all the rights women have compared to our fellow women around the world.
This episode really touched my heart, because we have adopted a baby girl from India. I am so thankful to our daughter's birth mother and father. They chose LIFE for their baby! I don't have all the details or if they knew they were having a girl prior to birth, but I know that this beautiful women carried her baby to term and then after delivery made the decision to relinquish her rights to her precious baby for whatever reason. This speaks volumes to me! Whether gender played a role in her decision I do not know, but she chose life for her baby and as a result I have been blessed with a beautiful, joyful, and full of life baby girl. For this I will be forever grateful.
After seeing a 20/20 episode like this, reading articles and books, and hearing testimony from workers in country who face this epidemic daily, it makes me want to adopt all the little girls from India. Since this is impossible, I pray for their safety and that some how they can hear of God's love for them and how valued and important they truly are.
What is shocking to me is that this is such a common practice in India and is widely accepted. There seems to be NO enforcement of the current laws to prevent the abortion of a baby simply because it is a girl. It breaks my heart to see the look on the face of the relative who holds the baby who was just born after she discovers it is a girl. She doesn't have to say a word, her face says it all....disappointment, sadness, etc. I understand that girls cost a family a lot of money when it comes time to marry, but to have money (the dowry) be the motivation to kill that child is up hauling. So sad that money has taken a higher place than a human life that God created!
In part 2 of the video below I was shocked as I watched the undercover sting happen and the doctor reports with great sadness that the baby is a girl and that the best option would be to abort the baby. Since the mother is so far along they will not be able to perform an abortion, but for more money he will give her drugs to induce a miscarriage. To kill this baby girl it will cost between 60,000 to 70,000 rupees ($1,114 to 1,300 US dollars). The entire scene plays out as such a common practice, which it is, and no emotion attached to what is being suggested....to kill a precious baby! Thankfully these two doctors faced charges, but this appears to be a rare occurrence.
In the second video I was encouraged to see so many happy little girls safe in the Unique Home. I am so thankful for homes and orphanages in India that give a mother who makes the choice to carry her baby girl to term the option of having a safe and loving place for that baby to go if they are not able to care for her. I find it inspiring how as an orphan herself she established this home to love and protect these girls. She knows all too well what each of these girls have faced. To think that most of these children arrive "half dead" because of the drugs the mother has been given to try to kill them is heart crushing. What a blessing it is to have a women who lives her life bringing these girls back to life and giving them the love and respect they deserve. It is understandable why she doesn't allow the children to be adopted out, because she doesn't want the possibility of anything more harmful to happen to these girls. It thrills me that she teaches the girl their value and that they have a choice. It is sickening to think that thousands of girls in India are shown from birth (if they even make it that far) and throughout their life that they have no value and are only good for producing a boy child for a man. It is so easy living in America to take for granted all the rights women have compared to our fellow women around the world.
This episode really touched my heart, because we have adopted a baby girl from India. I am so thankful to our daughter's birth mother and father. They chose LIFE for their baby! I don't have all the details or if they knew they were having a girl prior to birth, but I know that this beautiful women carried her baby to term and then after delivery made the decision to relinquish her rights to her precious baby for whatever reason. This speaks volumes to me! Whether gender played a role in her decision I do not know, but she chose life for her baby and as a result I have been blessed with a beautiful, joyful, and full of life baby girl. For this I will be forever grateful.
After seeing a 20/20 episode like this, reading articles and books, and hearing testimony from workers in country who face this epidemic daily, it makes me want to adopt all the little girls from India. Since this is impossible, I pray for their safety and that some how they can hear of God's love for them and how valued and important they truly are.
