Protecting young is part of being human
Muneeza Naqvi’s Associated Press article in your May 5 edition with the distressing picture of the crying, emaciated 21-month-old little girl, Sani in India, will haunt me forever. This beautiful child should be cherished and loved, secure in her parents’ devotion. Instead they, and thousands like them, are starving their little girls to death because they are not boys.
The mind recoils in horror at these barbaric acts of an affluent and supposedly educated society. Have they no conscience, no heart, no humanity? This is a child, their own flesh and blood! How could there be no room for her in their lives, in their hearts?
And then the dreadful thoughts come to mind -- in our own supposedly educated and affluent society, mothers have to date aborted over 53 million babies, their own flesh and blood!
A few weeks ago, when the giraffes at Brookfield Zoo were let out for their spring run, a duck which had a nest in that enclosure, disregarding her own safety, kept on relentlessly attacking the huge giraffes in order to protect her young. How very tragic that the human mother, a being with a heart and soul, cannot match the duck’s “humanity.”
Barbara Wroblewski
Wheeling