{"id":37,"date":"2007-07-13T18:12:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=37"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:00:52","slug":"abortion-registry-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/07\/13\/abortion-registry-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Registry in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/in.today.reuters.com\/news\/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&amp;storyID=2007-07-13T135329Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-284547-3.xml\">Reuters<\/a> India plans to implement a registry for all abortions in order to cut down on abortions of female fetuses.\u00a0 Apparently, many families choose to abort female babies despite the law against sex determination tests.\u00a0 The registry will cut down on \u201cmysterious\u201d abortions and (hopefully) create a safer environment for women who actually would like an abortion for \u201can acceptable and valid reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn acceptable and valid reason,\u201d huh?\u00a0 What exactly does that mean?\u00a0 When I first read this, I thought, <em>Right on!\u00a0 The fight against gender discrimination\u00a0is taking another step forward<\/em>.\u00a0 But then I realized, <em>Wait\u2026what exactly is an \u201cacceptable and valid reason\u201d?\u00a0 And who exactly makes that judgment call?<\/em>\u00a0 This same question is brought up on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/\">Feminsting.com<\/a>, and now I\u2019d like to attempt to tackle it while proposing it to our beloved readers.<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a0 one hand, this seems like a great step away from\u00a0the preferential treatment of the male gender in India.\u00a0 They are trying to eliminate the abortion of females strictly because of their gender.\u00a0 That\u2019s great.\u00a0 The problem with this registry is, who is deciding what abortions are OK and what aren\u2019t?\u00a0 If the only criteria is that the abortion is not desired strictly for gender preferences, and if the register aides in providing safer options for women, then I don\u2019t seem to have a problem with it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m skeptical, though.\u00a0 The patriarchy runs rampant in all parts of the world.\u00a0 Gender discrimination is everywhere, and it seems that only in a perfect world would women have control of our own bodies and be able to decide what we can and cannot do with them.\u00a0 I suppose we will just have to wait it out and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Reuters India plans to implement a registry for all abortions in order to cut down on abortions of female fetuses.\u00a0 Apparently, many families choose to abort female babies despite the law against sex determination tests.\u00a0 The registry will cut down on \u201cmysterious\u201d abortions and (hopefully) create a safer environment for women who actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/07\/13\/abortion-registry-in-india\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abortion Registry in India<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}