Why Save The Girls?

I'm a girl and so is my sister...We've been brought up by a single parent,our mother...

I've never seen a shred of regret in her for not casting away the two us when we were mere foetuses in her womb...Neither have we felt as liabilities...Rather we always were and still are her most precious assets...No,we are not heiresses to any fortune,we've just inherited the family's value of gender unbiasedness...None in my family look at the birth of a girl child in disdain,and as for me and my sister,we're looking forward to knitting pink booties when we're mothers...

I know how fortunate i am...Some say its because my family is educated,i call that balderdash...The girl child is regarded as an affliction in most of the affluent,highly educated families in the country...The statistics show that female foeticide and infanticide is on a dangerous rise in the coastal belt of Orissa,the so called "hub" of economic and social prosperity in the state...The interior,tribal dominated districts show a balanced sex ratio,indicating blatantly that education is not the limiting factor...

I know i have been fortunate for being allowed to be born,but how fortunate am i(as a woman)to be alive today?

I say,"Why Save The Girls?",when they are accountable for their every deed,while their brothers are not?When they are eve teased,when they are raped?When they are nothing but moral obligations to their unwilling parents?When they are bartered in illegal dealings?When they are abandoned for being unwed mothers,while the sire's deed is not unethical in the society?When they are made wives to husbands bought in the market for wads of money?And when,mercilessly they are tormented body,mind and soul for the rest of their living days?

There is no necessity of saving the girl child...Doctors in the state have banned abortions,as is the recent news,but it will only lead to more and more unwed mothers,and ofcourse the girl child being born to more and more reluctant parents...Let the foeticides resume...What consequences will ultimately unfold,is for the future to see...