‘Customised’ babies? Only in India!

“Garbh Sanskar, a scientifically proven fact, is an amazing way of teaching/educating and bonding with unborn baby in womb during pregnancy,” says the website of Garbhvigyan Anusandhan Kendra.
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“The project claims to have delivered 450 customised babies successfully,” reports The Indian Express. They also said some of the protocols will involve three months of purification and the time of intercourse will be decided by the position of the planets but that intercourse is not permitted during pregnancy.

All of this combined together will give the couples their perfectly customised child. This project was started in Gujarat and plans to have centres in every state by 2020.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1404272/indias-rss-promises-couples-customised-fair-super-babies/

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India’s RSS promises couples customised, fair ‘super babies’

Published: May 8, 2017

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) medical wing is promising “dark-skinned” parents customised babies with a fair complexion.

On Friday, the Calcutta High Court granted permission to the RSS-linked Arogya Bharati to carry out a workshop on how to conceive fair and tall children.

According to NDTV, this workshop explained procedures through ancient secrets on how to conceive a ‘susantan’ or a super baby.

Dr Karishma Narvin, a visiting lecturer from Gujrat University conducted the workshop which was priced at INR500 per couple.

“Modern-day genetic science allows for genetic engineering in vitro, which is in a petri dish, whereas the garbh sanskar which they propagate would enable this genetic engineering to be in vivo, inside the womb itself,” said Dr Hitesh Jani while talking to NDTV.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1404272/indias-rss-promises-couples-customised-fair-super-babies/

9 May 2017

Critics say ‘genius’ babies engineering in India is ‘Straight out of the Nazi playbook’
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India’s largest Hindu far-right organisation said it is working with expectant couples in the country to produce “customised” babies, who, they hope, will be taller, fairer and smarter than other babies, according to a report in the Indian Express newspaper.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) health officials claimed that their program – a combination of diet, ayurvedic medicine and other practices – has led to 450 of these babies, and they hope to have “thousands” more by 2020, the report said.

“The parents may have lower IQ, with a poor educational background, but their baby can be extremely bright. If the proper procedure is followed, babies of dark-skinned parents with lesser height can have fair complexion and grow taller,” Hitesh Jani, the health wing’s national convener, told the newspaper.

Jani explained that the programme consists of a “purification of energy channels” and body before a pregnancy, and mantra-chanting and “proper food”, such as meals rich in calcium and Vitamin A, after the baby is born.

On Saturday, the chairwoman for a state child rights commission tried to attend one of the workshops where couples are counselled on how to produce these “genius” babies – as the Economic Times termed it – but was barred by organisers, that newspaper said.

“This is an unscientific thing that’s happening here. It cannot continue,” Ananya Chatterjee, the chair of the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said. The RSS countered that her charges were “politically motivated”.

Responding to a petition from the commission, the West Bengal state high court later mandated that organisers present an affidavit and video of the proceedings, which went off as scheduled.

The programme launched more than a decade ago and has spread to several Indian states. It was inspired by a RSS leader who met a woman in Germany more than 40 years ago.

RSS officials said the woman led a post World War II re-population effort in Germany for “signature children” based on the same principles, according to the Indian Express report.

This comment – and its evocation of the legacy of Third Reich era eugenics – prompted immediate backlash on social media, with one critic writing on the Daily O opinion website that this “dystopia in the womb” was “straight out of the Nazi playbook”.

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/critics-say-genius-babies-engineering-in-india-is-straight-out-of-the-nazi-playbook

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