Personal, free (? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />) choice, right or priviledge - that is one side of viewing it. But in the discussion of ethics, ethical behaviour of society, what about the ethics of the "service" providers?

[color:"orange"]Diagnostic teams with ultrasound scanners which detect the sex of a child advertise with catchlines such as spend 600 rupees now and save 50,000 rupees later.[/color]

Obviously it addresses itself to people, who have 600 Rupees, and have the potential to lose 50.000 Rupees - which, I am pretty certain, is not everybody in India.

This is a purely economic, profit oriented, business model. Why does nobody discuss the ethics of this? Is it sufficient that a "need" exists, or potentially exists, to justify any "service"?

And this attitude, I fear, is not traditionally Indian, but the influence of "advanced", "modern" (western <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />) liberal capitalism and the mercantile exploitation of medical science and technology.


In times of crisis it is of the utmost importance not to lose your head (Marie Antoinette)