Last month in our column we touched on the issue of sex-selective abortions. This month we would like to elaborate on this topic.

At the recently concluded Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, the Bush administration (USA delegation) sought to introduce a resolution condemning the killing of girls (just because they are girls) through the process of sex-selective abortions. This resolution was thwarted by the European Union and its allies.

Though the numbers are difficult to establish most demographers believe that millions of girls are now killed by this method. Where are the Women’s Rights groups? Are they truly seeking the interests of women?

The British medical journal Lancet recently surmised that there were perhaps 100 million “missing” girls in the world, girls not allowed to be born and grow into women. These are innocent baby girls who have been selectively killed for no other reason but that they were daughters and not sons.

 China is the largest offender: there are now 130 boys born for every 100 girls (the normal ratio is 104 boys to 100 girls). India is the second largest offender. We need to look at the potential demographic calamity. What will happen to a society in which 40 million men cannot find wives?

There are considered four cultural factors that must be present for sex selective abortion to arise:

1. A traditional preference for sons
2. reduced fertility and family size
3. availability of sonogram technology
4. and cultural acceptance of abortion

Sex-selective abortion should be an embarrassment to feminism. While feminists push for feminine dominance and equality, their own ideals for freedom of women’s choice, and abortion, has led to this form of killing off future women of the world.

It seems to have “slapped” them in the face. Research has even suggested that sex selective abortion is especially prevalent among rich, urban, educated women in China. It is never pleasant to be forced to admit that one’s own revolutionaries have begun to devour their own.

The European Union’s allies at the United Nations openly campaign for an international right to abortion-on-demand. This would mean that there would be abortion for any reason whatsoever, thus concretising the legality and practice of sex-selective abortions in any part of the world - if left to the pro-abortion activists.

It will be quite interesting to see how feminists groups and pro-abortion advocates deal with trying to restrict some forms of abortion like sex- selective abortions, in the interest of the saving and preserving the future of “women’s right to life”.

While all this takes place in the world around us, we should be on guard in our own country and so pray for its preservation against these evils.

We must be concerned not only with the innocent souls that perish in abortion but truly concerned with the unrepentant souls of those mothers and advocates of abortion and the societies that are crippled by the disregard for human life and dignity.

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