Continual fall out:
Sex selection on Google angers Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: Links to websites promoting sex selection have come under the scanner of the Supreme Court. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan sought explanation from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft on a plea seeking direction to block part of their search engines for allegedly promoting illegal advertisements.
The court also issued notice to the Centre asking why such sites should not be blocked. The government’s stand on constitution of a monitoring cell to check misuse of Internet media for such illegal promotions was also sought.
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3364788,flstry-1.cms
In addition, the Illegal gender test kit selling company Urobiologics, LLC. is owned by Indian Doctor. There is no way Mr. Kuldeep Verma or his daughter Manisha Verma be unaware of gender selective abortions and legality of advertising or selling their products in India. They knew very well about the lucrative Indian and Chinese markets, and advertised on google, yahoo and micorsoft delibrately.
oh we won’t sell you these kits directly in India but you can find a loophole to get your hands on it, as Mr. Verma puts it,
Dr. Kuldeep Werma, the founder and president of the company, said by phone from the company’s Livonia, Michigan, headquarters that Urobiologics cannot ship kits directly to India, but that a kit could be delivered to a U.S. address, and from there mailed to India. Samples mailed from India can be processed in 15 days, he said.
Millions of unborn girls have been killed in India in the last two decades, in back allys and abortion clinics and burried in the back yards of these clinics, Prime Minister of India called it “The Shame of India”, there is also a shame of India living and making their millions abroad, playing their part in continual genocide of unwanted girls.
here is more about the disgraced company, from their website,
About Urobiologics:Kuldeep Verma, Ph.D
Founder and PresidentDr. Kuldeep Verma is an accomplished biochemist / biotechnologist with a multidisciplinary training in toxicology, molecular biology and agriculture. In 1982, Dr. Verma discovered the difference in the urine of an expectant mother carrying a male fetus versus a female one. It took him two years to develop a procedure in collaboration with two hospitals, which provided urine samples from pregnant women who were soon to be due. The procedure enabled Dr. Verma to determine of the gender of a fetus, although not with the desired high accuracy. Over time, with extensive research and testing of over around 17,000 samples, Dr. Verma found the accuracy to be highest during the first trimester, particularly from the approximately the 5th through the 15th week of pregnancy.
In 1999 he founded Urobiologics, LLC, and since has processed 4,100 urine samples from expectant mothers using this proprietary process. He has primarily marketed Urobiologics through word-of-mouth. Over the years, the test’s average expected accuracy has improved from 91% in 1999 to approximately 98% in March 2007.
Manisha Verma, CPA
PartnerManisha Verma, also daughter of Dr. Kuldeep Verma, has served as a partner and financial consultant since June 2005. Manisha received a Bachelors in Health Administration and a Master of Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has over 5 years of audit experience at Ernst & Young, LLP and Deloitte & Touche, LLP. As a partner in the Company, she directs the marketing efforts for the Company.
If you like to know more about Gendercide please find related articles and case studies online, a couple of them are listed below,
http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html
Case Study: Female InfanticideFocus:
(1) India
(2) China
http://www.jha.ac/articles/a080.htm
Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention: Incorporating the Gender Variable
8 Comments
September 14, 2008 at 9:35 am
[...] and “selection” on Google India on Thursday, up popped a sponsored link to Urobiologics LLC, a U.S. company owned by Indian Scientist that sells urine test kits for $275 to $400 that it says can determine the sex of an unborn baby [...]
September 14, 2008 at 8:03 pm
[...] and “selection” on Google India on Thursday, up popped a sponsored link to Urobiologics LLC, a U.S. company owned by Indian Scientist that sells urine test kits for $275 to $400 that it says can determine the sex of an unborn baby [...]
September 15, 2008 at 11:00 am
Please do not take us wrong. We have record of orders coming from India cancelled by us right away. We were misguided by a business lawyer that if a sample is tested outside India, it may not be a problem. Only two customers have misused us by ordering from us and then sending to India. We came to know of it afterwards. After this interview, our perspective has changed.
We hereby commit ourselves not to register or encourage any order linked to India, directly or indirectly.
September 16, 2008 at 2:17 am
Dear Dr. Kuldeep Verma,
I am glad that you now adhere to a perspective widely known and practiced by people with a notion of strong moral and ethical position on gender selective genocide. I also appreciate the fact that you are trying to engage general public on your adjusted views of the facts on the grounds in places like India and China. In addition to realizing that you may not get in a legal limbo, but nonetheless, there is a big difference between what may be within legal bounds but immoral and or unethical by widely if not universally practiced standards of society.
I am sure there is a lot of hard work and dedication involved in the work that you do and have done on research and development of this product, and it may bring happiness and joy to millions of people around the world who do not have the luxury of getting regular ultrasounds and gender determination of the child they are expecting, once it is mass produced and affordable for people in the developing countries.
Along with mass production and availability comes the fear that, the huge demand in India will create a black market for your product eventually. Like trafficking drugs, weapons, women and children, and organs your product will be paid for and abused by the highest bidders in India.
You maybe currently facing legal challenges in India which will be over in due time, there are often fallouts of bad business and ethical judgments but public usually has a very limited memory, if you(company) and product survived this time you will be fine.
What you need is an explicit declaration of commitment and social responsibility on your company’s existence, mission statement, additional pages on your website showing affirming and reaffirming this commitment, pictures of hugging some orphans or supporting some NGOs would also be good, the usual cleanup most American companies do after fall outs. Only you know your intent and genuine commitment (hopefully you do), Keep on engaging public, the tides will turn eventually.
Whether you invented it out of conviction or greed, the history will judge you and your invention in a decade or two, when new tallies of toll is made available by related Agencies. You may find this criticism harsh but if it may be helpful, your product may not be the only contributor or may not contribute (as per your commitment) to continual genocide of girls, a lot of people in India do not feel necessary to use gender determination methods to kill unborn girls, a lot of girls are conveniently smothered after being born.
Thank you again for your efforts to engage general public, if there are any responses, statements and commitments going forward I will be glad to have them on my post.
September 16, 2008 at 6:05 am
Dear idealistard
I appreciate your efforts and agree with most of what u have written. After spending 23 years working on girl child issues, I would like to respond to your statement “a lot of people in India do not feel necessary to use gender determination methods to kill unborn girls, a lot of girls are conveniently smothered after being born”.
This is not fair to Indian women or to the society. Killing girls at or immediately after birth is an extremely difficult act. I have lived in Indian villages for over 6 years working with communities on ameliorating girl child neglect. Direct infanticide is an extremely rare event, at present it is responsible for low child sex ratios (females/males) only in about 10 of 600 India’s districts. And these are among the areas most hostile to human survival (not just girl infants).
Indian child sex Ratios have started to fall in a big way only after modern foetal sexing technologies have been misused in the country over the last 30 years. We are now heading towards elimination of 1 million girls by the next Census, 2011. The potential Indian market for products for eliminating girls is over 20 million in the coming decade. It is in this context I have taken objection to global internet companies from profiting from promotion of sex selection by filing the petition in the Indian supreme Court. Even if a few thousands of desperate families are forced to kill their girls that is no justification for internet companies to promote gender selection products to millions of Indians.
Sabu M. George, MA(Johns Hopkins), PhD(Cornell).
New Delhi, Sep 16, 2008
September 17, 2008 at 6:03 am
Dear Dr. Sabu M. George,
I am honored to have you reflect your point of view, and appreciate your dedication and service to the cause to rid India from the curse of gender selective abortions. You are someone who actually did something about it, unlike us reactionaries.
I am aware of the fact that direct infanticides are extremely hard and rare act, somehow there is a thin distinction between abortion and/or murder. In my personal view, even one such case is a “lot”. It will not be unjust and unfair to the nation and our people if we could trade the stigma of giving birth to a girl child, which can consume their entire life struggling with the menaces of (dowry, abuse, taunts, burning, torturing, etc.). to the stigma of being unfairly accused of few extra infanticides, until such practice is no more.
Long shot, but since Indians abroad are accessing these products and sending home, Indian diaspora in western countries should be denied access to these product, I for one shall not be offended when declined access to such products.
Thank you again for being you.
September 21, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Very interesting.
thanks for directing here idealis!!! please keep in touch …
just a bit addendum … sabu george = he
i’ve met him and yes, he’s doing fabulous work.
September 21, 2008 at 3:24 pm
oops Thank you for the heads up Roop
, you are doing great work as well, and have a very well crafted blog on this very sensitive subject. Thank you for raising awareness, and your great work.