Culturally in South Asia (or at least India) abortion is synonimous with aborting female foetus. ie. bforstall/b the future payment of dowries amounting to many lakh rupees by paying for a $50 abortion before birth. b...../b because they are descended from the zamindars, and the people who owned the neighbouring bestate/b was not from the same particular grading in this 'top-bottom being better than the other' strata, but were 'nouveau riche' people who had only recently acquired ...