Anger over female infanticide in India
Wednesday, 15th August 2007
By: George Conger.

CHRISTIAN women’s groups have expressed outrage over a rising tide of female infanticide in India, following the discovery of two mass graves of aborted foetuses.

“This is a dangerous situation and, if it continues, there will be the extinction of female children," said Sabitha Swaraj, president of the All India Council of Christian Women on July 26 following the discovery of the mass graves.

The preference for male children has lead to a gender imbalance in the population of India. A study published in 2006 in the Lancet found that in 2001 showed that for every 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls.

The report written by Prabhat Jha of St Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto found that half a million girls were being aborted each year. the rest