{"id":300,"date":"2004-08-30T01:07:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T06:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=300"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"girl_unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/girl_unwanted\/","title":{"rendered":"girl, unwanted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"baby shalini.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/baby shalini.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\" align=left hspace=20 \/>\n after an operation failed to &#8220;tie&#8221; his wife&#8217;s fallopian tubes, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3572974.stm\">Chhagan Singh Rathod of Rajasthan<\/a> says he will kill his youngest daughter, Shalini, age 3, since he &#8220;cannot afford to support&#8221; her.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Mr Rathod has filed a case against the doctors in the state&#8217;s High Court and wants compensation from the hospital, which denies wrongdoing.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>He recently sent an e-mail to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, saying that if something was not done about his case soon he would kill Shalini &#8211; although he later withdrew the threat.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8230;The child in the middle of all the fuss, Shalini, is oblivious to the controversy surrounding her birth and continues to live happily in her own world.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Her father is still waiting to hear from the chief minister.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after an operation failed to &#8220;tie&#8221; his wife&#8217;s fallopian tubes, Chhagan Singh Rathod of Rajasthan says he will kill his youngest daughter, Shalini, age 3, since he &#8220;cannot afford to support&#8221; her. Mr Rathod has filed a case against the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/girl_unwanted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}