{"id":181972,"date":"2018-04-26T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=181972"},"modified":"2018-04-26T00:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T04:57:39","slug":"infanticide-india-abortion-devalues-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/infanticide-india-abortion-devalues-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Infanticide in India: Abortion devalues human life both before and after birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In two separate incidents this past week, newborn babies were brutally murdered by their own parents in India.\u00a0In both cases, the babies escaped abortion<\/a> but ended up facing similar violence after being born. Clearly, if human life is not respected inside the womb from the beginning, it can more easily be devalued immediately after birth and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

North India: Newborn’s mother slit her throat<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

In one gruesome incident in north India, a mother killed her six-day-old daughter by slitting the child\u2019s throat with her sharpened fingernails after a failed abortion attempt. The 27-year-old mother from Umbarde village near Thane was arrested on April 22<\/span>nd<\/span> after she confessed to the crime of killing her newborn daughter. Police were alerted by the doctor, who felt something was amiss when the mother came in with the bleeding child to be treated at the hospital — and a <\/span>neighbor witnessed<\/span><\/a> the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to <\/span>The Indian Express,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0an officer from Khadakpada police station said \u201c(the accused) had her hands around the baby\u2019s neck while the newborn was bleeding. The child was taken to a private hospital but was declared dead.\u201d Reportedly, \u201c[the mother] didn\u2019t want a third child and had borrowed money for an abortion. But her husband allegedly took the money and spent it on alcohol,\u201d a source privy to the case said. \u201cThe mother accepted that she wanted to kill the child as she would have been an extra mouth to feed. She already has a son and a daughter.\u201d (A different source<\/a> states that the woman already had two daughters at home.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Maharashtra, where the incident took place, is notorious in north India for abortion — especially sex-selective abortions. 102,398 abortions were committed in the Maharashtra government clinics in 2015, with 5,301 of those in Thane district, and this number doesn’t include illegal abortions or abortions committed in private clinics. Research reveals that a total of <\/span>15.6 million abortions<\/span><\/a> were performed in India in 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If we are bothered by a newborn child having her throat slit after birth, then we should also be bothered by this:<\/p>\n