#foeticide

‘Coordinated efforts needed to tackle menace of foeticide’

Speakers at the one-day workshop held at District Collectorate here on Saturday called for coordinated efforts among the judiciary, police, revenue, medical and health departments to tackle the violation of the PC PNDT Act 1994 (Pre-conception & Prenatal Diagnostic Technique Act). The workshop titled ‘Effective implementation of the PC PNDT Act 1994’ was organized by the medical and health…

You told out loud that I had a chance.

I started to hope fervently, I did.

This time it would be different, I prayed.

Maybe this time they won't kill me, I thought.

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You lied mother, didn't you?

You built my dreams and broke it in two.

You knew they would be against me, they were the last time.

But maybe you could've stood up for me this time.

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Here I was, dreaming up a future,

A lovely life to live and nurture.

I was wrong to believe you, mother.

I should've known that this wouldn't head further.

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Just because of my gender

you've now killed me twice.

Had it been otherwise,

would you be kind and nice?

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But I should be thankful that you ended it now,

I really don't think I'd receive any love.

And it spares me from a horrid thought, mother.

That maybe I would be you one day, killing another.

From the Parson's Tale, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales:

"Eek whan man destourbeth concepcioun of a child, and maketh a womman outher bareyne by drynkynge venenouse herbes thurgh which she may nat conceyve, or sleetha child by drynkes wilfully, or elles putteth certeine material thynges in hire secree places to slee the child, or elles dooth unkyndely synne, by which man or womman shedeth hire nature in manere or in place ther as a child may nat be conceived, or elles if a woman have conceyved, and hurt hirself and sleeththe child, yet is it homycide. What seye we eek of wommen that mordren hir children for drede of worldly shame? Certes, an horrible homicide. Homycide is eek if a man approcheth to a womman by desir of lecherie, thurgh which the child is perissed, or elles smyteth a womman wityngly, thurgh which she leseth hir child. Alle thise been homycides and horrible deedly synnes."

Never mind if keeping that child while you're in a state unfit to care for it and no one else will treat it as it deserves, never mind if *that* should be sinful.