timeimmortal

Vox Day brings to light a statistic of which I was not aware:

The ratio of girls per 1,000 boys in these areas hovers around the 700s and 800s, with as few as 300 girls per 1,000 boys in some high-caste urban areas of Punjab. As investigative journalist Gita Aravamudan argues in her 2007 book, “Disappearing Daughters: The Tragedy of Female Feticide,” “Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female feticide is more like a holocaust. A whole gender is getting exterminated.” The problem extends beyond India….

A new study suggests that female feticide may be disturbingly common in some American communities. In an analysis of 2000 Census data published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Columbia University economists Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund examined the sex ratio of births among U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean and Asian-Indian parents. They found “evidence of sex selection, most likely at the prenatal stage.”

Abortion was supposedly the ultimate guarantor of women’s rights in this, the age of enlightened post-Christianity. Equally, it’s supposed to be the ultimate expression of a woman’s right to “control her own body” (whatever that actually means).

And abortion seems, now, to be shaping up as the tool or mechanism by which women will all but disappear from many regions of the world.

~ by Kenneth on May 30, 2008.