Canadian women with ancestral roots in the Punjab region of India appear to be having fewer baby girls than the Canadian average.  Data from the 2001 Census show that, in the South Asian communities of Brampton and Mississauga (suburbs of Toronto), the proportion of girls under 15 is two percentage points below that of others residing in those municipalities.

Although some disagree, many Indo-Canadians admit that sex-selection abortions are widely accepted and practiced by their ethnic group.

Anubha Dhanju says she noticed the imbalance because of an innocent comment by her son. "My son came home one afternoon and wondered why girls don't go to school," she says.

Ms. Dhanju, a teacher in Mississauga, says her son had noticed there were few girls of Indian origin in his class at Roberta Bondar Public School, located in a part of Brampton where many immigrants from India have made a home.
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"We kill our girls in the womb, even before they are born," says Amandeep Kaur, a consultant with the Mississauga-based Punjabi Community Health Centre. "It's sad, but the truth."
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But officials with the Peel District School Board, which oversees schools in Brampton and Mississauga, disagree that there is an issue. "We have not observed this," says Varsha Naik, a community liaison co-ordinator for the Peel board, although she acknowledges that "certain communities from South Asia still continue to put greater value in having a male child."

Since the introduction of ultrasound technology to India in the early 1990s, births of girls have fallen far behind those of boys in India as a whole—and especially so in the Punjab state of north India, where girls are viewed as a burden by the family.

Indo-Canadian women report being coerced in aborting unborn baby girls.  So much for "women's freedom of choice".  Where are the feminists who fancy themselves defenders of Canadian women?

As long as multiculturalism remains Canadian policy, it’s doubtful anything will be done to protect Indo-Canadian women from being pressured into having abortions they don’t really want.

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