Inde: Indian Bishop appalled at scope of selective abortions
A bishops' conference official expressed shock at a study in a British medical journal on selective abortions in and stressed the need for ethics in the health care profession.
A recent study published in The Lancet revealed that in the last 20 years, 10 million girls were not born in due to selective abortion.
Although prohibited by law, this practice of prenatal selection and selective abortion is carried out in numerous hospitals and clinics, according to the AsiaNews agency.
Bishop Percival Fernandez, secretary-general of the Episcopal conference and a former director of
The prelate said he is "seriously concerned" about the magnitude of the abortion problem in .
"It is a reflection on the decadent morality of society; people's conscience has been dulled," he told AsiaNews. "Aborting a male or female fetus is one and the same crime against human life and the Creator."
Father Babu Joseph, spokesman for the episcopate, said: "Remedial measures are to be urgently taken to put an end to this silent dance of death on female fetuses." www.zenit.org 20060117