‘It’s a Girl’ is Fatal

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Derek Bekebrede – The Harvard Crimson – Thursday, 26 January 2012 (originally published 23 Jan)

The United Nations estimates that there are 200 million “missing” women in the world today, and by “missing,” the UN means they are dead. With the advent of abortion on demand, the modern world has encouraged parents around the world to use violence against their own children in order to achieve what they want. In some nations, even if the mother disagrees, the government takes the liberty of killing her children for her. While abortion proponents argue that abortion is an issue of women’s rights and empowerment, in reality it is nothing less than the deadliest weapon of gender discrimination on a global level.

Many blame the mass sex-selective abortions on specific policies and “backwards” traditions within specific nations and cultures. However, American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt found that the growing number of “missing” women couldn’t be explained by specific cultures or government policies alone. To measure the effect of sex-selective abortions, Eberstadt examined the sex ratio at birth for each nation. Naturally, the sex ratio at birth should fall between 103 to 106 boys for every 100 girls, and child sex ratios are correlated positively with education, income and urbanization. In large portions of China and India, the sex ratio is higher than 120 and increasing as the nations continue to develop and globalize, but the problem isn’t unique to the two Asian giants. Other nations with biologically impossible sex ratios include Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Puerto Rico, Georgia, and Turkey among many others. In total, half of the world’s population lives in countries with unnaturally high sex ratios, representing nearly every one of the world’s major cultures and religions, from Buddhism to Christianity. The “missing” girl phenomenon is not a region-specific problem or statistical fluke. It is a global war on girls, driven by abortion on demand.

Unfortunately for women around the world, the progressive movement remains willing to tolerate gendercide as the collateral damage of their promotion of abortion. In response to the global war against girls, Human Rights Watch wrote, “regulating abortion may be ok but not to avoid sex-selection.” Planned Parenthood has opposed legislation aimed at limiting sex- and race-selective abortions. Liberal publication The American Prospect stated that no one should seek to stop parents from routinely aborting their female children, defending their claim with the assertion that “sometimes, freedom means we have to live with the possibility of icky things.” Genocide is not something that one lives with as a free person; it is a direct attack on freedom and, more importantly, humanity . . .

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