“When my mum walked out on my dad, she said to him, ‘One day this girl will make me proud’. All my life I’ve wanted my mum to be proud of the decision that she chose me,” Pooja said last week.
Neera has been thrust into the limelight by her daughter’s success. She has been dubbed Mother India and has already been approached by one Bollywood director who wants to film her story.
Pooja Chopra's father remarried and never supported his first two daughters. Chopra has become a symbol of the campaign to end the preference for boys over girls in India. Link -via Arbroath
@CFME
I find it interesting that you focus on that point, when you should be focusing on the fact that the husband was a complete douche from the first child before they had Pooja. This is about long dead traditions that need to change, and to stop living in the medieval times where sex or deformity has nothing to do with the individual. The fact that your against women to have free choice over being able to support and raise a child when they can barley survive on their own is just as oppressive as the father that demanded a son. I'm just glad she got herself away from that dead beat dad and idiot relatives to make a life for her and her children.
Go back under the bridge...
since when is it wrong for people to have an opinion?
Wikipedia says:
Troll: in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response.
mikos, so what's it called when you accuse someone of trolling, who states their opinion, albeit a controversial one, in an appropriate post?
I'm more in the middle. I don't think women should get abortions for frivolous reasons, but I think they should have the ability to get them. If this couple had the opportunity abort their child based on its sex, then that would be as wrong to me as killing her after birth. CFME blames the mother before birth, which is incorrect, since the husband would have made that choice for her, if he could have. That's why the woman left. Choosing boys over girls is a cultural bias, and not a matter of women's rights.
Yes, it was a just beauty contest, but it is prestigious nonetheless and hopefully changes some of the gender based perceptions in her society.
i don't recall anyone ever jumping up and down, pumping their fist in the air, asking for high-fives and saying that abortion was awesome and every woman should do it.
you're a complete idiot (if you are indeed not a troll) if you think that abortion is an easy choice- even for the so called "frivolous women" who "use them as their method of birth control".
and as for "having to pay for the rest of your life"- it's none of your business what an individual chooses or goes through in life. and since i'm pretty sure you're not psychic and will never know the best outcome for everyone- maybe you should be a little bit more compassionate. the fact is that everyone has difficult choices to make that may not fall in line with what you might do given the same situation- but most people do the best they can with what they have at the time.