[Assam] Son-Preference: How to stop this attitude?

[Himendra Thakur]

Dear Umesh,

We need medical doctors and psychologists to come forward with the solution of the problem. To use titles like "Jihad against doctors" is a great disservice to the cause. There are exceptions, but most of the doctors are wonderful people --- they save our lives. One must avoid stereotyping and insinuating people, which appears to be a widespread misbehaviour at the net.

However, I thank you for the link in the Internet about a medical doctor being punished under the PNDT Act for selective female feticide. I most sincerely congratulate Dr. B.S. Dahiya, Haryana's former Health Chief for his fight. If possible, please give me his telephone number so that I may talk with him and invite him to the "Eighth International Conference Against Dowry, Female Feticide & Son-Preference" to be held in Kanyakumari on December 27,28 & 29, 2006.

PNDT is a punitive law which cannot really stop the menace unless there is a "Change of Mind-Set" in the country as adjudicated by the Supreme Court of India on October 10, 2003. 

To "Change the Mind-set", we must work at the root of the attitude called "Son-Preference". I request the netters to discuss about the causes of "Son-Preference" and the actions needed to reform this wrong notion.

With the best wishes,
Himendra
 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: umesh sharma 
  To: assam at assamnet.org 
  Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:23 PM
  Subject: [Assam] IE: Jihad against doctors in Haryana??


  http://www.indianexpress.com/story/1501.html

  Umesh Sharma
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  Ed.M. - International Education Policy
  Harvard Graduate School of Education,
  Harvard University,
  Class of 2005


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