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“You don’t
have the right to end the life who is yet to see this world..” this was the
Judge’s last statement .
Compassion ,it
seems has no place in the corridors of power dominated solely by electoral
considerations. Nothing else perhaps can explain the plight of the 14 yr old
rape survivor of Bareily who lost the legal battle to abort her unwanted child.
I am not
here to oppose or support the judgement .May be the Judgement is right as we don’t
have the right to kill someone but can we imagine the challenges that the girl
will face who even don’t know how to feed herself.
Her tale is poignant
and powerful enough to melt hearts: Just imagine a young unwed mother saddled
with the onerous task of bringing up a child in a poor family that struggles to
feed its members.
For say we
have the government , a no. of NGOs, the society to help her but we better know
how she will be treated by them.
When a
soldier give his life fighting for the country , When a farmer does sucide in
the hope of better life in next birth , when someone dies in an accident, their
dependents are announced to get lakhs of money from the government . We better
know the daunting challenges faced by them to get those money. (If not, just
ask someone who have ever faced….)
How can the
society help when they humiliated her for being raped, the same neighbours,the
same relatives who even accused that it was her fault ,a nurse refused to help
for being a rape victim.
Though the
accused is in jail, she is forced to
confront stigmas associated with rape and out of wedlock motherhood.
She was
denied abortion on the ground she was 20 weeks pregnant – the permissible limit
under law for aborting foetus.
But I want
to ask didn’t the judiciary took too long to decide and even the official kept
her waiting ?? Time was of the essence to abort the foetus but the
establishment took no notice.
What I
Believe:-
What is
heartrending ,is the system we are surrounded by/governed by .There is an
urgent need to ponder over all this because we can’t run away from everything as
may be one day we too have to face the heat
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great one bt why dont u write regularly
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