In
War on Women news, from India;
Village bachelors in northern India are demanding brides for votes in
state polls next month because of a shortage of women after decades of
illegal abortions of female foetuses, the Mail Today reported on
Thursday.
The men in Haryana state's Jind
district say they cannot find wives and have formed the "Jind Kunwara
Union" (Jind Bachelors Union) to formalise their demand to politicians
campaigning for state elections on Oct. 15, the paper said.
Wha' happened?
Decades
of illegal abortions in this deeply patriarchal society have led to a
fall in the female population in some parts of India, and this in turn
has resulted in a rise in rape, human trafficking and polyandry, experts
say.
....A May
2011 study in the British medical journal the Lancet found that up to 12
million Indian female foetuses were aborted over the last three
decades.
We await the promises from Indian politicians.
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