Killings of newborn babies on the rise in Pakistan

[thundley4]

KARACHI (AFP) – The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city's garbage dumps.

"They can only have been one or two days old," says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity's morgue.

In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.
More than 1,000 infants -- most of them girls -- were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.

The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan's main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.

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Abortion is prohibited in Pakistan, except when the mother's life is at risk from her pregnancy, but advocates say that legalisation would reduce infanticide and save mothers from potentially fatal back-street terminations.

  Yahoo

Maybe this should have been in the general area, but oh well.  At first this outraged me but  then when I thought about it , it still outraged me. However, the numbers of children murdered in this inhumane fashion is far fewer than the civilized people in our country kill each year by abortion.

[true_blood]

The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan's main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.

Disgusting. 

[MrsSmith]

Abortion is prohibited in Pakistan, except when the mother's life is at risk from her pregnancy, but advocates say that legalisation would reduce infanticide

Killing the baby at a younger age does not make it better.   

[DefiantSix]

Once again, Islamofascists prove that they're what progressives want to be when they grow up their testicles drop.

[true_blood]

Once again, Islamofascists prove that they're what progressives want to be when they grow up their testicles drop.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Fewer radical muslims?

[cavegal]

Fewer radical muslims?

Works for me!

[Celtic Rose]

Fewer radical muslims?

Not helpful...

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Not helpful...

What we have here is a society so debased it will destroy its own.

While my reflex reaction is to mourn the innocent--while they're still innocent--I can only imagine what these babies would grow-up to become.

It would be as if there was a gas line explosion at a school populated solely by the offspring of white supremacists and the entire class was obliterated during readings of Mein Kampf. I suppose it would be a bad thing but...