A World Where Mothers Kill Their Babies.

I read two rather rattling posts today. The one on Unchaahi, is rather emotional and sentimental, it talks of the unpleasant sense of disbelief. While the other one on XX Factor, will shake your very soul with the facts it states. Both of these speak about the discriminating treatment meted out to the female sex in our country and more specifically female infanticide. Do read both the posts, they will shove the reality right into your face.

Infanticide, and a mother killing her own child, really? As a human being primarily and also a mother, I can say that a new born is the most beautiful thing to behold in life. Just holding the small cuddly bundle in one's arms, is enough to melt the stoniest of hearts. When you see an infant, all you feel is a strong gush of love, an intense want to protect and keep safe. A very natural instinct it is I think, something that is hard coded into the human chip. And then to think of a woman killing her own child, its unfathomable, at least for me.

Its a scary world, where parents kill their own babies, innocent, new-born infants at that. I am scared, my heart is chilled with fear, at the thought of what kind of world have I brought my child into. These people are worse than the terrorists who attacked Bombay. The terrorists killed people, under some kind of misguided zeal, but these people they kill their own infant baby for no credible reason. I cannot even express in words the horrendous images forming in my mind as I type this. A new born, helpless and innocent being tortured to death by her own parents, I wish I could just go and hold her in my arms, comfort her and give her my love. Please if anyone is going to kill their little baby, give her to me instead, please please please. I feel guilty of knowing this and not doing anything about it, I feel like a coward.

This is clear cut murder, a genocide, worse than WW-II. And now there is not just that one figure of Adolf Hitler leading the front, it is being led by a huge tyrant army of faceless, nameless, anonymous, ruthless killers. They are the kinds who die, only to be replaced by more of the same, like the demon who sprouted a new head, each time one was slayed. We cannot let this happen, we cannot let small innocent babies die, just because they are female, its inhuman, its demonic.

Are we turning into emotionless, cold, unfeeling , completely inhuman monsters? How else can one explain a mother taking the life of her own child, when a mother is the one who nurtures and protects her babies, till they can hold their own. The ones who give life to the little baby, the ones who create her, ruthlessly suck the life out of her, just because of her gender? The creator becoming the annihilator, it feels like a horror movie, only that this is not, its real. I just cannot grasp it or accept it.

This post might not have a proper flow of thought, but that is because I am supremely disturbed by what I have read, and am just unable to absorb it, and move on. To say I am devastated, would be an understatement.