The Wall Street Journal review of the book "Unnatural Selection" is perhaps one of the best:
There have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world.
Ross Douthat had an op-ed in yesterday's New York Times on the same topic. Also worth a read.
It was with particular horror that I read a Daily Mail article today about girls as young as one having sex-change operations forced upon them by parents desperate for a son:
Wealthy parents from Delhi and Mumbai are reportedly flocking to Indore, a city in the centre of India, for the relatively low cost £2,000 treatment to surgically 'correct' their daughters.Parents have allegedly pressed for the surgeries despite being told by doctors that the 'converted' male would be infertile.Seven genitoplasty experts in Indore boasted each of them had turned 200 to 300 girls into 'boys' so far, with only one being older than 14, the legal age of consent to such an operation.
As the oldest of six children -- I have four younger brothers and one younger sister -- I cannot imagine life without my younger sister, who is now married with a son of her own. We were quite happy as youngsters (and are all still close), and it wasn't until I was in college that my mom told me how there were several times she didn't know if she would have enough money for food and diapers.
As a woman, it is difficult to comprehend how I -- and my gender -- could be unwanted.
It is quite the twist of fate how modern pro-abortion feminism (which I will write separately on, I promise!) exported abortion to developing countries such as India, and now women are being exterminated.
The pro-abortion blog Abortion Gang wrote a blog post about the persistent issue of sex-selection abortion. It's a look inside the pro-abortion mindset that wants to keep abortion legal at all costs.
The pro-abortion blog Abortion Gang wrote a blog post about the persistent issue of sex-selection abortion. It's a look inside the pro-abortion mindset that wants to keep abortion legal at all costs.
I leave you with this excerpt of an editorial by Kathryn Lopez:
Liberal feminism, with its addiction to abortion and its bullying of men, was never what American women and men – and certainly the American family – needed.Despite some of the best of its intentions, it was mixed up in eugenics and disloyal to the legacy of the suffragette movement, a failed experiment in remaking reality that has left a trail of misery….We girls can be confident, feminine, life-affirming compliments to men, at home, school, work, and politics. And even pro-life conservatives. We’ve come a long way, baby.
- Virginia
HT Creative Minority Report for the sex-change article.
4 comments:
This is one of the most frightening reports I have ever read...
I have a solution: ban ultrasound. Nobody gets to know the sex of the baby until it is born. There would still be the problem of infanticide, particularly in China and India, but the numbers would shift.
Sooner or later, parents in both countries will learn that if nobody has baby girls, their darling little sons will grow up to marry nobody, and their precious family lines will end, forever.
Chinese are starting to figure that out. The tragedy of the commons comes back to haunt us.
SJ: the sex change happened after they were born though.
I do really agree with Lopez though, the old guard of feminism is crumbling and a new, vibrant, and dare I say joyful feminism is emerging.
Oh, I was looking at the part about sex-selective abortions. Those operations are going to cause considerable trouble. Evidence is that those born boys and raised as girls, even with surgery, eventually realize that they really are boys. I bet the same thing happens with girls.
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