” ‘600: rupees now, save 50,000 rupees later’ is the advertising slogan of diagnostic teams with ultrasound machines that predict the sex of the unborn child”

The Times highlights an abhorrent advertising slogan in its article on infanticide in India. Female foetuses are aborted because men are seen as the breadwinners, and because the family of a girl must pay a dowry when she gets married. The article is here.

Posted Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
Filed in community and social, human rights, politics

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