PM Singh Urged to 'Save the Girl Child'
India's widespread practice of aborting female fetuses is a "national shame," the prime minister said yesterday, insisting the country can no longer ignore the problem if it wants to be a modern nation.
The gap in the ratio between girls and boys is more extreme in wealthier urban areas where couples want fewer children and the pressure to produce a male increases. In the northern state of Punjab there were only 798 girls for every 1,000 boys, Singh said.
--China Daily, April 29, 2008
