Religions target female foeticide

Article says more about us than about India
A caravan of 25 vehicles and 200 people has been criss-crossing five northern and western states of India for the past 10 days.

The travellers are on a mission. They are campaigning against female foeticide, which has resulted in a gender imbalance in some parts of the country.

The campaign is being led by well-known religious leader and social activist, Swami Agnivesh.

"There's no other form of violence that's more painful, more abhorrent, more shameful," declares Swami Agnivesh.

[…]"The crime has come to acquire such dangerous proportions in our society that the government is feeling very helpless. They think that unless people from the world of religion come forward and join hands and march together, the problem cannot be solved," says Swami Agnivesh.

He says religious leaders of various faiths, including Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Jainism, are participating in the march.
(Emphasis mine; read the whole BBC story here.)

This is a fascinating example of how we see things these days. Children are being aborted or abandoned to die, and the BBC’s primary complaint is that it leads to “gender imbalance.” It’s okay to kill, just so long as you’re not selective about it.

We started out with the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Somehow equality of value has been transformed into equality of valuelessness. Human life reduced to the simplest of equations: 0 = 0.