Blog Entry 3

1. For my third blog entry, I decided to talk about abortions. During class, we talked about how there is a practice in certain countries such as India where people will go through an abortion if they find out if a child is a female. 

2. During my time in India, I remember hearing about the protests that were against this on the news from time to time and speaking about it in class made me think about it and I decided to do some research. "It is estimated that in India a female fetus is aborted every minute, resulting in skewed sex ratios like 1,000 men for every 618 women in India’s Daman and Diu region" according to the article listed below. 

One of the reasons why female fetuses are aborted are due to similar reasons that we learned about earlier, being that the male is the one who will take care of the family as the female will be married and eventually leave the house. It as deemed as a poor investment. It is the same as education and is a norm that needs to be broken. 

3. If i had unlimited funding, i would set up some sort of way to educate those who do not have the opportunity to go to school. I feel like education is a big factor as to why this happens and will decrease if women are provided with the same opportunities as men. There is no way to tell what someone can achieve, and depriving them of their right to live and become something in life is wrong.

Sources: https://www.newsrecord.co/answering-for-indias-missing-girls-sex-selective-abortion-in-india/