India: Bishops condemn sex-change operations for infant girls 
July 11, 2011
The Indian episcopal conference has "strongly condemned" sex-change operations performed on infant girls at the request of their parents. In Indore--a city of 1.5 million in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh--some 300 girls under the age of one have reportedly been victims of the operation. "We have strongly condemned, as Indian bishops, this horrible practice," said Father Charles Irudayam, an official of the Episcopal Conference of India. "It is the result of a mindset that favors [the] male as a source of profit and as a son of greater value, mortifying the dignity of women."
"We knew about the phenomenon of selective abortion which, according to some studies, over the past 20 years has concerned more than five million young girls," he added. "Now surgery emerges … A lot needs to be done--just like what the Church is doing--to spread a culture of equality and to promote the dignity and the rights of women in society. But we have to fight a rooted mindset, and [it] is therefore a work that takes time."
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