News reported (in India) is reproduced below:
- Bareilly teen rape victim gives birth in ambulance as nurse refuses to help – Hindustan Times
- Bareilly teen rape victim denied nod to abort, delivers baby in ambulance – The Indian Express
- Raped teen loses abortion battle, delivers baby boy in ambulance – The Times of India
I will consider this as quirk of
fate where the victim is pained more and the society is watching shamelessly.
I wish there was Lord Krishna
today who could save the victim the way he saved Draupadi when society (Great Pandav and Kaurav warriors - Males)
witnessed the act of disrespecting Draupadi. The birth of baby boy by a teen
girl against her wishes is disrespecting of women in contemporary time.
Here, Allahabad High Court denied
abortion and asked CMO to check the medical condition of the 14 / 16 year old
girl (travesty of newspaper reporting age appearing different).
I recollect the advertisements
appearing in Doordarshan where it stated that do not marry a girl before she is
18 years. These advertisements were supported by Governments as this will
uplift the Female Gender in a Male dominated society.
Few questions:
·
Is definition of Abortion under the Medical
Termination of Pregnancy Act overrules the victims plea?
o
Plea: “she will not be in a position to
raise the baby because of her weak financial situation and because the child
will be a constant reminder of my trauma and shame"
·
Can the Court take the custody of the baby and
raise it as its parent?
o
Foolish: Obviously this will be a foolish
question as an institution cannot be a living person
·
Is a women who got pregnant has the right to
make a statement on abortion or the male genders or one who has never been
pregnant (both Institutions and Living Species) should speak about abortion?
o
Mother Teresa - “I feel the greatest
destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the
child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother
herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how
can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman
not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we
remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts...”
·
What is insensitivity?
o
Margaret Sanger - “No woman can call
herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a
mother.”
o
Marilyn Manson - “We don't like to kill
our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”
It’s very frustrating that male
genders talk about pro life and right to live when it is there fraternity which
causes the havoc on fellow species.
Do we mankind has to go to 2116
and make a statement like Queen Elizabeth “Queen gives royal pardon to Alan
Turing, the WWII codebreaking hero who was convicted for being gay then
sterilised by the state” (Dailymail , UK).
What will be our statement “We apologize
for all the cruelty we showered on fellow species named women”.
I don’t want to take a rebirth
and make a statement in 2116.
Lets remember what Swami Vivekananda said:
"Educate your women first and leave them to themselves; then
they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them. In matters concerning
them, who are you?"
"There is no hope for that family or country where there is no
estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be
raised first."
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