About 50 members of Life for All, a non-governmental organisation, along with girl students from different colleges took out a rally with placards displaying messages such as “Save Girl Child” and “Say No to Abortion” at Race Course on the occasion of National Girl Child Day today.

Simon Durairaj, organiser of Life for All, quoting Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development, said, “Our culture’s disregard for the female gender has earned India notoriety throughout the world. The injustice towards girls and women surround us at every turn. The giant of female foeticide is devouring our future at an alarming rate.”

He added, “The choice you make today about your unborn child will determine not only your future, but that of our nation too.”

Students made the public aware about the issue by displaying photographs of aborted children, cut and torn into pieces by the abortionist’s instruments.