Have you ever heard a story in which a mother kills her daughters, not one baby but eight baby girls? This brutal act of killing innocent and speechless human beings was done by the kids’ mother to get one son. The account of these killings is the opening scene of the documentary film “It’s a Girl”. No action was taken against the mother because the government of the country where these acts took place is careless and frequently ignores this type of murder. Sometimes greed to obtain one thing (in this case, a son) is so much that a person loses control of his/her morality. The killing of daughters is terrible and is only one form of gendercide. Gendercide is common in some countries. China and India are two of the major countries where gendercide is common, and although it is illegal, there is often no governmental action taken…show more content… That just hit one's heart like hitting head on the rock.
It’s a girl, shows real stories about what problems a mother faces if she wants a girl and also how some mothers kill their daughter’s to have a baby boy. In Tamil Naidu, one woman killed her eight daughters because she wanted a boy. In her interview in the film, she told the methods that she used to kill eight babies. The most shared and brutal methods used by her was pouring acid, poison in milk, moist rice to block the oxygen and strangulation. (Hatten, Kristen) It’s a girl also shows the other side of the view, where some mothers fight to have a baby girl. For example, in China, if a woman is pregnant and it is her second or third child then she has to go through forced abortion. Most of the times neighbors are the ones that inform the Family Planning Committee for forced abortion and in return, they get a reward for reporting someone’s illegal
