[geeks] More on medical tourism

[Phil Stracchino]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> More on medical tourism:
> 
> A couple from the UK goes to India for IVF and when they have
> twin girls abandons them because they were not a boy.
> 
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4025532.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164

Note that although both British citizens, they were both born in India. 
  This aspect of Indian and Chinese culture is one that I find very 
repellent - the idea that sons are wonderful, but daughters are 
worthless.  It took a twisted culture to come up with the custom of suttee.


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