Friday 11 January 2013

Abortion In Rape Cases

For example, the mass abortion of female foetuses (for this purpose suddenly known to the BBC as "baby girls"), leading to at least one, and doubtless subsequent, generations including many millions of young men suffering from extreme and apparently insoluble sexual frustration due to the contrived absence of their potential brides.

Such abortion is not an example of State coercion. On the contrary, though enormously widespread, it is in fact illegal. How outrageous. Whatever happened to a woman's absolute right to choose abortion on any grounds that she might happen to see fit, and indeed without so much as having to state any? As we all know, that is the foundation of all her other rights, and most especially of those relating to her sexual life and to her bodily integrity.

Oh, and can anyone explain to me how a high-caste man, who, like a high-caste woman, loses caste and must undergo purification rituals merely by the accidental brushing of a low-caste or Dalit person in the street, can nevertheless retain it even after having raped a low-caste or Dalit woman? The Dalits, ordinarily Untouchable in the most literal sense of the word, also provide upper-caste India with many millions of prostitutes. How can that possibly be?

We should be no keener on Hindutva than we are on the Caliphate, and no keener, increasingly, on India as she is now becoming than we are on Pakistan as she has really always been. Alas, David Cameron takes a very different view, paying court by proxy, and no doubt soon enough in person, to Narendra Modi. At least Mahinda Rajapaksa's little helper was removed as Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Defence. So much for Buddhism as a religion of peace.

2 comments:

  1. Your pro-abortion?

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  2. Gosh, no. Seems like I'm not the only one who isn't. If they thought through what they are saying at the moment.

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