The video above is the shocking reality for women and families living in China and India. Countless numbers of newborn baby girls are killed, or abandoned because these countries culture favour sons. As you can see in the video some parents willingly commit infanticide killing any female children they birth, but some are not given the choice and their daughters are brutally killed whether they agree or disagree. This is the beginning to a argument I would like to make about how it is not right to kill newborn babies, specifically when it is just based on their gender.
It is shocking how some of the people shown in this video take something as serious as killing a child or forcing a woman to undergo an abortion so lightly.
For example, the women who talks about how she has "killed eight girl children" with a smile, and laugh in her voice (picture below is the same women explaining how she would strangle her daughters). Also, another male in the video shows how they use cloth towels to suffocate newborn girls as if its instructions to tie your shoes.
The culture of the people in these countries favours males. In India they believe that men are connected to wealth and new daughter in laws, but females are connected to loss of wealth and daughters since they would leave the family once they were married. Similar to this in China with the one child policy they want males to carry on their traditions and name. This mindset of these people is what leads families and communities to kill or abandon females because they value males more, while females are a burden.
To get more information on this documentary you can visit: http://www.itsagirlmovie.com
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