Unlike Hemingway’s character, they are often more than willing to abort a girl and try for a boy. The novelist Salman Rushdie once put the question to supporters of abortion rights: “What should be done when a woman uses her power over her own body to discriminate against female fetuses?”
很多人提出印度妇女应该顶住家庭压力，拒绝打掉女婴。可印度妇女对男婴的渴望却丝毫不亚于其他人。与海明威小说中的主人公不同，她们往往会迫不及待地打掉女孩，以争取怀上男孩。小说家萨尔曼·拉什迪曾经向堕胎权的支持者提出这样一个问题：“如果女性利用对自己身体的权利来歧视女性胎儿，我们该怎么做？”