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Balak Das wanted to have sex with a 13-year old girl, but she refused him. So he drugged and raped her while she was carrying food to workers in guru Mauni Maharaj's fields in Khorana Village near Shivpuri on January 2, 2004. When she realized that she was pregnant, the guru forced her to eat seeds of dhatura (thorn apple) mixed in sweets, and she gave birth to a dead child. She was also permanently blinded by the deadly potion. On December 18, 2004, a Shivpuri Judge Renu Sharma sentenced Das to life imprisonment for the rape and Maharaj to five years hard labor for the forced abortion and mutilation of the little girl.1 Runu Jena was six months pregnant, and her husband, Rama Pradhan, did not like this one bit. He ordered her many times to have an abortion but she adamantly refused. So, on July 26, 2003, he stabbed her repeatedly in the neck and abdomen with a broken bottle and left her for dead in a pool of blood on the railway tracks near Bhubaneswar station. She had been slashed so severely that her esophagus was ruptured. S.A. Karim, officer-in-charge, Government Railway Police, investigated the crime. He said that "Her husband had almost killed her when he stabbed her with a broken beer bottle. It's a sheer miracle she escaped." Karim, who recorded Runu's statement, said her husband brought her to Bhubaneswar on Saturday to abort her six-month-old preborn child. Police charged Rama with attempted murder.2 Nanda Kumari of Upperpally Village, was pregnant and joyfully awaiting the birth of her child, but her husband Shekhar was not quite so happy. He tried to browbeat her into having an abortion, but she refused. She fled to her parent's home, but her husband and his relatives would continually harass her, demanding that she have an abortion. Finally, in 2002, Shekhar and his mother forced Nanda to have an abortion at a private hospital. She became despondent, and, one day, when nobody else was home, she doused herself with gasoline and burned herself to death.3 In the USA, pro-aborts put intense pressure on pro-life ob-gyns to cave in and go with the flow but at least the pro-lifers aren't murdered, as they are in India. In one such case, Dr. Sushil Pal of Howrah refused to perform an early abortion, and paid for his beliefs with his life. Local politician Biswajyoti Basu was looking for a doctor to do a discreet abortion to avoid publicity, and when he approached Dr. Pal, he refused to do the job. On July 2, 2004, Dr. Pal left his wife Kanika to go on an urgent medical call to a nursing home. Basu's thugs slashed and beat him to death there and dumped his body in the Hooghly River. But even brutally murdering her husband wasn't enough payback for the heartless pro-aborts, who taunted, threatened and harassed Kanika until they forced her to resign from the National

Medical College and Hospital where she held a job as a clerk. Of course, it didn't matter to the pro-abortionists that Kanika was the sole support of her two little girls.4 Abortionists are bad enough. They only care about women to the extent that they can extract money from them. Pornographers are exactly the same way. So when these two filthy professions intersect, you naturally get a stinking, evil mess.

Jayanta Bag was just another abortionist among Calcuttas teeming millions of people, and business was good for him. But Bag had a peculiar hang-up he liked to record the abortions on his cell phone and then pass them around as a sordid preborn baby snuff films. He actively participated in the desi porn market, so-called because it involves wealthy and influential people voluntarily participating in every manner of sex act while being filmed. Bag would abort these women, then, knowing of their low morals, would recruit them into the pornography industry. Bag and his wife Sutapa were also willing participants in porn movies. He picked the wrong girl to film one day the girlfriend of one of a local group of toughs. Early in the morning of April 4, 2007, four youths, Ujjwal Biswas, Raju Roy, Ashish Koley and Biswajit Pal, broke into the house of abortionist Bag and Sutapa. A detective said that Both Sutapa and Jayanta, a quack, were party to the murder of Tiyasha at their Jagacha home in Howrah. Sutapa strangled the girl while Bag was slashing the veins in her hands and legs. P. Neerajnayan, the special inspector-general of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said that The woman then did nothing to stop her husbands suicide attempt. So, we have charged her with abetment to suicide. She has also been charged with involvement in a conspiracy and attempted suicide.5

Endnotes
1) Madhya Pradesh. "Man Rapes Kid, His Guru Blinded Her." December 24, 2004. Downloaded from http://www.rediff.com/rss/newsrss.xml on December 26, 2004. 2) Debabrata Mohanty. "Bottle Stab at Wife Over Abortion." The Telegraph [Calcutta, India], July 29, 2003. 3) Woman Sets Self Ablaze." The Times of India, January 8, 2004; "Indian Woman Kills Herself After Family Forces Her to Have Abortion." Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life News Report, January 9, 2004. 4) Doctor & Leader in Murder Trial." The Telegraph [Calcutta], April 5, 2005; Pronab Mondal. "Past Haunts Slain Doctor's Widow; Gynaecologist's Wife Resigns Hospital Job to Flee Taunts of Colleagues." The Telegraph [Calcutta], September 14, 2007. 5) Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri. Kolkata is the Hotbed of Desi Porn Market. DNA [Daily News & Analysis], April 19, 2007; Charges on Widow of Quack. The Telegraph [Calcutta, India], January 25, 2008.

(updated May 29, 2011)

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