Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women.

I'm Sarah Stone Street.

And I'm Erin Kunkel.

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Welcome back to the second part of our conversation with Deihamina Aurora, who is a lawyer in India focused on religious rights.

In today's conversation, Tihima shares with us about her efforts to help what she calls the vanishing girls of India and the surrounding nation.

Let's jump into this part of the conversation. You are fighting two very important huge causes. One is what we've talked about,

religious liberty. And the other is the Vanishing Girls campaign that is really fighting against this

idea and this practice of sex selective abortion. What are the roots behind it, the views behind

it about girls that are causing this sex selective abortion to be something that's practiced in India?

The Vanishing Girls campaign is a campaign that's very close to the heart, my heart, as a mom of a daughter,

but also I think to many team members, because we see how pervasive this idea is in our culture,

that women are not valued, and we see this everywhere. You see it in

homes in terms of how wives are treated, but our daughters are treated, how elderly parents can be treated

in terms of mothers can get treated. You see it in the fact that daughters are denied equal rights and property.

Daughters don't have inheritance rights.

They have it in law, but they're not given as cultural practices.

I give you a very personal example.

Even when I was expecting mine first daughter, because the law in India says you cannot know the sex of your child.

That's what the law says. So you go through nine months of pregnancy without know the sex of your child. That's what the law says. So you go through

nine months of pregnancy without knowing the sex of your child. But every time somebody sees you as a

pregnant woman, people will come up and tell you, oh, I really hope you will have a son. Looking at you,

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