To be Born or Not to be born

Thursday, 07 August 2008 23:44

Written by Anshul

May be if Stephen Hawking reads Indian newspapers, he would have been thanking god for not being born in India. With the amount of disability he suffers from, no parent in India would have dreamed of him surviving for such a long time, leave alone the fact of reaching the high position he finds himself now. With the latest controversy on the rights of the Mehta couple having to abort or not, the attention has been focused on millions of similar foetuses which are not in the glare of publicity.

Only if the poor child could hear all the people around him discussing about the number of diseases he could have, he would have chosen suicide rather then coming out of the womb of his mother. The whole discussion has brought back the attention to the theory of chance or probability as we call it mathematically. So from now on anyoe would be at a quandary about the chances of fertilization producing a normal child. If the decision was left to child, it would prefer to take its chances unless it was 100 per cent fit to be born, despite the assurances that any-kind-of-challenged baby would not be an object of ridicule in our great Indian society. If such was the case none of would have been born.
Parenting has become a hard task these days and with the demands of time where children start competing with each other for family honours very early, any child with a disability would be difficult to be taken care of and also would bring shame in social circles. It's better to kill that child before his birth rather then face the huge task of parenting and try to give him the life which he was destined for. Is it not that we are moving towards the idea of a perfect and homogenous world, where we would have similar kinds of human beings around us. Any kind of abnormality would be considered as a cause for euthanasia.

Or the reason may be that we have stopped looking at positives. Instead of looking at the half-full glass we tend to look at the half-empty glass. May be that's why we are not ready to look at the chances of that child being born healthy and normal. Nobody loves a loser and hence everyone would like this world to be populated with healthy and normal kids. Like Adolf Hitler dreamt of the perfect Aryan race.

This is the new face of humanity and our way of showing the world that we have become advanced, while the rest of the world stops killing after 14 weeks, we will kill the poor foetus after 24 weeks. If we talk about stopping abortion we will be labeled as a religious and fundamentalist country. But as one of the protagonist in Juno says "Remember it has fingers by this time".

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