Lost Girls II

A new report in the Lancet say that more than 10 million baby girls have gone missing in the past decade in India. It's the first credible report I've read about this. Ultrasounds are to blame: More pregnant women are learning the sex of their baby (even though it's illegal for docs to reveal the gender) and when they find out it's a girl, they're having abortions. Just like in China, boys are prized and girls are just dowry money-suckers to be married off and forgotten. China's patriarchal society has long been criticized by outsiders, but India's has skirted public attention. Maybe this report will draw more notice to it.