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 (DIR) Post #BAJ7sPMTQmvW9YGp96 by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
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       https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667009725000235 Female infanticide and abandonment of newborn girls is a real, recurring problem in Pakistan. Year after year, rescue groups recover abandoned infants— 95% girls. Some are found alive. Many are not. A few weeks of cases in one district can turn up several tiny bodies, some already torn by animals. Boys are treated as the family’s future—heirs, labour, old-age security. Girls are often seen as a cost: another mouth, a dowry to pay, “someone else’s property” after marriage. Births outside marriage carry crushing stigma. The infant—almost always a girl—is hidden or dumped so the family can pretend it never happened. For the hundreds of unnamed girls left in garbage, prosecution is rare. That is why the practice continues. This is murder. Dumping newborn baby girls does happen in the UK. What is more frequent is sex selective abortions. The government estimate roughly 400 sex-selective abortions of female fetuses have occurred in that group over five years
       
 (DIR) Post #BAJ7sPc4UnP4vvZHSS by Kuenga@spinster.xyz
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       @HebrideanHecate Pakistan is another nasty shithole.