There is a sad story on Catholic News Service today about the abhorrent practice in India of aborting female babies. Apparently, the dominant Hindu culture present there prefers male children because only a son can perform certain burial rites for the parents that free them from the endless cycle of birth, suffering and death.
Women in the Hindu cultures have another fear, providing they are born in the first place - dowry failure. If they or their family cannot pay the prescribed dowry for marriage the young girl can be killed. More often, they commit suicide under pressure from their husband and family if they cannot meet the dowry demands.
You can read the entire news article here:
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1203327.htm
Sometimes it takes looking at the injustice in another land to realize the horror in our own. As you read the story contemplate the fact that about 3,000 babies will have their lives ended TODAY in the good old U S of A. Then pray to God that he would put in on our hearts and on the hearts of all persons to accept and love each and every human person. What can you do today that could bring about a culture of life in your own world?
If you want peace, work for justice. (Pope Paul VI)
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