Killed for Being a Girl
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Monday, April 13, 2009 10:48 AM
Of course, none of us is surprised to read the “news” that China has 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20.
But I was disturbed.
Though I know that China’s one-child policy has led to Chinese baby girls being aborted at alarming rates, seeing the numbers really brings the injustice into the light:
32 million more boys than girls. That’s a lot of missing babies.
This kind of news story really points us toward the elephant in the room that almost no one speaks about directly. Sure, the New York Times runs a story on the disparity between boys and girls and the article notes that “The Chinese government is openly concerned ‘about the consequences of large numbers of excess men for social stability and security,’” but no one seems to want to talk about all the dead baby girls.
I have always found it absurd that “pro-choice” people to refer to abortion as a a “right” and a means by which women attain equality with men.
The unreal social situation in China is a particularly excruciating example of one of the ways in which women are not liberated but are in fact enslaved by abortion.
My heart aches, not only for baby girls killed for the “crime” of being a girl, but also for their mothers. Chinese women choose to abort or abandon their baby girls, not because they are modern, liberated women, but because they are pressured to do so by a culture that favors males.
This is freedom? This is equality?
I only wish more of our political leaders had the courage to call it what it really is: Sex discrimination of the very worst kind.
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