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Like all well-planned crimes, Anil Sabhani and Kartar Singh, both doctors, had only pulled the triggers. The masterminds behind the killings are still walking free. The two good doctors are part of a fast-growing club of medical professionals using technology as a sex-seeking weapon of mass destruction.

The duo had a code that would give many criminals a run for their crimes: if parents were told to collect the sex determination , it was a boy; if Friday, a girl. According to the Indian Medical Council, doctors like Sabhani and Singh have killed about 5 million foetuses through abortion; the Lancet puts it at 500,000.

To say that this is shameful and bellow out a 750-word, lump-in-the-throat rant is easy. To find solutions is difficult. And to punish the masterminds is impossible. How do you punish 10 per cent of India’s population? How do you punish a thriving culture that has taken male supremacy to limits unseen? How do you punish mothers who smother? But before the punishments, take a look at the research on this mournful activity. In 1990, Amartya Sen observed that the world was short of 100 million women because of excess female mortality in India, China and South Korea. The next year, Ansley Coale put the figure at around 60 million for China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and West Asia and Egypt. And in a more recent 2004 paper by Neelambar Hatti, T.V. Sekher and Mattias Larsen, “Census reports throughout the 20th century have recorded a steady decline in the proportions of female population in

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