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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 159492" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><strong>Re: Withholding sex of fetus could curb ‘female feticide’ in Canada: doctor</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Orientalist discourse on female feticide in Canada </span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">January 18, 2012</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Haroon Siddiqui - The Star, Toronto</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Canadian Medical Association Journal says the way to stop the abortion of female fetuses is to withhold disclosing the sex of a fetus until 30 weeks, by which time “an unquestioned abortion is all but impossible.” This raises questions:</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Since a woman has the right to an abortion, on what basis would the state rob her of that right? </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">To save female fetuses, obviously. If so, would it be okay to abort male fetuses, as some women in North America are said to be doing?</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Or, would the ban extend to all fetuses — as pro-lifers have long argued — including those diagnosed with life-threatening defects? Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum advocates so, and relates how his wife carried just such a baby to full term in 1996, only to see the newborn die within hours. Sarah Palin made the choice of giving birth to a boy with Down syndrome.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">These legal and ethical dilemmas are not tackled by the medical journal’s editor, Dr. Rajendra Kale, in his signed editorial, “‘It’s a girl!’— could be a death sentence.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">A native of Mumbai, where he did his initial medical studies, he thinks that Indo Canadians as well those from China, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines have imported the wretched practice into Canada. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The most authoritative voice on the “missing girls” phenomenon in India happens to be another Indo Canadian — Prof. Prabhat Jha of the University of Toronto, founding director of its Centre for Global Health Research.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">He leads an internationally acclaimed study showing that up to 12 million female fetuses have been aborted in India in the last 30 years.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">He also disproved that it’s mostly the illiterate poor who are desperate for sons (as insurance for old age) and who dread having a daughter (for whom they would have to raise marriage dowry that can bankrupt families).</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Jha showed that female feticide is, in fact, more prevalent among educated and richer Indians. They are no different than the poor in their desire for sons (“the Indian equivalent of a Canada Pension Plan and/or an RRSP”). The difference is that they can afford the ultrasound tests and selective abortions. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">They don’t devalue girls, per se, but rather desire “a balanced family.” If their first-born is a boy, they don’t go for abortions in subsequent pregnancies. But if the first or the first two are girls, the family opts to abort female fetuses.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In China, the male-female imbalance is worse than India’s, 833 per 1,000 vs. 914, Jha’s study shows.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The official one-child policy, combined with the traditional Chinese preference for male children, led to widespread selective abortions of female fetuses. By 2010, there were 32 million more boys than girls.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">But are Canadians of Chinese, Indian and other Asian descent carrying on female feticide here?</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Kale says they are. Some anecdotal evidence backs him. But the evidence he cites, including an American study of just 65 women from India and a Canadian one based on census, is speculative. One even admits that its findings “cannot be considered conclusive,” yet plows ahead: “it is not unreasonable to interpret them as good evidence that . . . the practice . . . is not completely abandoned by immigrants,” and that “if this is the case, there’s cause for concern,” etc. (emphases mine).</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Scientists and researchers are not above mining anti-immigrant prejudices, unwittingly or otherwise. It is important that they, especially, adhere to higher standards than Orientalist radio hotline hosts. And that they subject their findings to vigorous peer reviews. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Jha is trying to properly determine the extent of female feticide among South Asian and East Asian immigrants in Canada, the U.S. and also South Africa.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The solution that Kale suggests has been in effect in India — to no effect. Disclosure of the sex of the fetus for the purpose of abortion has been illegal there since 1996.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons already advises against using ultrasound to identify fetus gender. Its counterpart in B.C. says that terminating a pregnancy for an undesired sex is unethical.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">There’s also the larger issue of the right of a patient to his or her medical information, a right confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1992.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">As Jha says, “it’s good to raise the issue, but the solution shouldn’t do more harm than good.”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><a href="mailto:hsiddiqui@thestar.ca">hsiddiqui@thestar.ca</a></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1117816--orientalist-discourse-on-female-feticide-in-canada" target="_blank">http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1117816--orientalist-discourse-on-female-feticide-in-canada</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 159492, member: 884"] [b]Re: Withholding sex of fetus could curb ‘female feticide’ in Canada: doctor[/b] [COLOR="Navy"][B][SIZE="5"]Orientalist discourse on female feticide in Canada [/SIZE][/B] January 18, 2012 Haroon Siddiqui - The Star, Toronto The Canadian Medical Association Journal says the way to stop the abortion of female fetuses is to withhold disclosing the sex of a fetus until 30 weeks, by which time “an unquestioned abortion is all but impossible.” This raises questions: Since a woman has the right to an abortion, on what basis would the state rob her of that right? To save female fetuses, obviously. If so, would it be okay to abort male fetuses, as some women in North America are said to be doing? Or, would the ban extend to all fetuses — as pro-lifers have long argued — including those diagnosed with life-threatening defects? Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum advocates so, and relates how his wife carried just such a baby to full term in 1996, only to see the newborn die within hours. Sarah Palin made the choice of giving birth to a boy with Down syndrome. These legal and ethical dilemmas are not tackled by the medical journal’s editor, Dr. Rajendra Kale, in his signed editorial, “‘It’s a girl!’— could be a death sentence.” A native of Mumbai, where he did his initial medical studies, he thinks that Indo Canadians as well those from China, Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines have imported the wretched practice into Canada. The most authoritative voice on the “missing girls” phenomenon in India happens to be another Indo Canadian — Prof. Prabhat Jha of the University of Toronto, founding director of its Centre for Global Health Research. He leads an internationally acclaimed study showing that up to 12 million female fetuses have been aborted in India in the last 30 years. He also disproved that it’s mostly the illiterate poor who are desperate for sons (as insurance for old age) and who dread having a daughter (for whom they would have to raise marriage dowry that can bankrupt families). Jha showed that female feticide is, in fact, more prevalent among educated and richer Indians. They are no different than the poor in their desire for sons (“the Indian equivalent of a Canada Pension Plan and/or an RRSP”). The difference is that they can afford the ultrasound tests and selective abortions. They don’t devalue girls, per se, but rather desire “a balanced family.” If their first-born is a boy, they don’t go for abortions in subsequent pregnancies. But if the first or the first two are girls, the family opts to abort female fetuses. In China, the male-female imbalance is worse than India’s, 833 per 1,000 vs. 914, Jha’s study shows. The official one-child policy, combined with the traditional Chinese preference for male children, led to widespread selective abortions of female fetuses. By 2010, there were 32 million more boys than girls. But are Canadians of Chinese, Indian and other Asian descent carrying on female feticide here? Kale says they are. Some anecdotal evidence backs him. But the evidence he cites, including an American study of just 65 women from India and a Canadian one based on census, is speculative. One even admits that its findings “cannot be considered conclusive,” yet plows ahead: “it is not unreasonable to interpret them as good evidence that . . . the practice . . . is not completely abandoned by immigrants,” and that “if this is the case, there’s cause for concern,” etc. (emphases mine). Scientists and researchers are not above mining anti-immigrant prejudices, unwittingly or otherwise. It is important that they, especially, adhere to higher standards than Orientalist radio hotline hosts. And that they subject their findings to vigorous peer reviews. Jha is trying to properly determine the extent of female feticide among South Asian and East Asian immigrants in Canada, the U.S. and also South Africa. The solution that Kale suggests has been in effect in India — to no effect. Disclosure of the sex of the fetus for the purpose of abortion has been illegal there since 1996. The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons already advises against using ultrasound to identify fetus gender. Its counterpart in B.C. says that terminating a pregnancy for an undesired sex is unethical. There’s also the larger issue of the right of a patient to his or her medical information, a right confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1992. As Jha says, “it’s good to raise the issue, but the solution shouldn’t do more harm than good.” [email]hsiddiqui@thestar.ca[/email] [B]source:[/B] [url]http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1117816--orientalist-discourse-on-female-feticide-in-canada[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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