[geeks] More on medical tourism
Phil Stracchino
alaric at metrocast.net
Thu May 29 06:52:03 CDT 2008
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> More on medical tourism:
>
> A couple from the UK goes to India for IVF and when they have
> twin girls abandons them because they were not a boy.
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4025532.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
Note that although both British citizens, they were both born in India.
This aspect of Indian and Chinese culture is one that I find very
repellent - the idea that sons are wonderful, but daughters are
worthless. It took a twisted culture to come up with the custom of suttee.
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