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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Sanny Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BY HERALD REPORTER > PANJIM, SEPT 4 In an interesting development and a > move > to clamp down on abortions and pre-natal sex > determination clinics, the > district administrations have stepped in to act > against erring clinics in the > state. > Mr Naik said, The clinics will also have to submit > to the collectorate on > the 5th of every month a report of all sonographies > conducted in the previous > month which will indicate the kind of tests > conducted. ------------------------------------ Among the many stories Sanny Vaz reported, being a woman I found this one of immense interest. Here is a story that (a) the media should take to task (b) women should be up in arms about(c) doctors and technicians should be violently protesting against. Let me take this point by point: Clamp-down on abortion (a) Abortion is legal in India, so why should there be a clamp down on abortion? Are the police now going to play moral adjudicator in deciding which abortion falls within the purview of moral acceptability and which ones do not. This is a very tricky task, at worst it is an infringement on one's civil rights and at worst all it does it give authorities the right to persecute technicians and pregnant women, persecutions which no doubt will stop upon the necessary bribes being paid. Clamp-down on sex-determination (b) Any women who has been pregnant and gone in for an ultra-sound knows that this clamp-down is the most bogus thing instituted. No amount of records being verified and perused by some babu in a government agency, is going to reveal pregnancies that have been terminated on account of sex-determination. The reason is simple. All it takes is a nod from the technician to come to know the sex of the baby during an ultra-sound examination. No further testing or recording of results is necessary. So again, all this will yield is persecution of clinic technicians and pregnant women. I honestly think that people making the laws in India are so divorced from reality that they must be making it in a sort of trance. Perhaps the real reason is to finance the low-interest housing loan repayments of all those babus working in government policing agencies. Ah, the bliss of bribes and babudom!! selma ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/