Sex-selection abortion

In the 1970's, abortion pushers achieved victory beyond their wildest dreams, limited abortion and/or abortion on demand. At this time, only one percent of geneticists believed that abortion for sex selection was morally acceptable, and this small minority generally kept their opinions to themselves for obvious reasons. By the late 1980's, the number of geneticists approving of sex-selection abortions had jumped considerably, and this trend shows no signs of abating.

The new andrologists

Dozens of sex-selection clinics have sprung up all over the United States and Europe since the mid-1980s. These clinics offer amniocentesis solely for the purpose of determining the preborn baby's sex by the 18th week of pregnancy. Chorionic villi sampling (CVS), a newer foetal diagnostic technique, can be used to detect foetal gender as early as eight weeks' gestation.

For example, see Dr. Morton A. Stenchever's letter entitled "An Abuse of Prenatal Diagnosis" on page 408, July 24, 1973 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Most of these same clinics, 'coincidentally,' of course, offer abortions for babies of the 'wrong' sex. So a brand-new medical discipline has sprung up in response to public demand: Andrology. Those doctors who specialize in determining the sex of children are called andrologists.

Missing girls 

Right now, in almost any corner of the world, a baby girl is being killed just because she is a girl. Her mother may be rich or poor, educated or uneducated. One thing is certain: She is not alone. She is part of a growing global trend of sex selective abortion and infanticide that favors sons and proves deadly for daughters. The practice, once thought to be unique to China and India, is catching on in Central Asia, Latin America, and the rest of the world. In an era when girls can rightly aspire to unprecedented status alongside their brothers, why are more parents choosing not to let them live?

Even the controversial United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which promotes fertility decline and abortion, estimated in 2007 there are between 60 million and 100 million "missing girls" worldwide. What is missing from the analysis, however, is acknowledgment that international institutions like UNFPA, created after World War II to foster development, are key drivers of the unfolding tragedy through their promotion of fertility decline as a prerequisite for human development, and fertility control as an international human right.

This fact should give us pause the next time we hear a U.N. official tell us that the advancement of women is a top priority.

Throughout human history, demographers tell us, nature has provided about 105 male births for every 100 females. This "sex ratio at birth"-stable across generations and ethnic boundaries-may range from 103 to as high as 106 boys for every 100 girls. In only one generation, that ratio has come unglued. 

Abortion acceptance is the cause 

Even the American Medical Association (who are stridently pro-choice) have commented as far back as 1976...

"A sad irony now confronts the feminists who fought so hard and so long to make abortion on demand legally available. Abortion is increasingly being used to end the life of healthy unborn infants just because they are not of the sex their parents prefer. And almost all of the unborn babies being aborted for no reason except that they are of an unwanted sex are female ... It's a Pandora's Box of potential trouble, and it was abortion, with the insistence on the legal right to eliminate human beings unwanted for any reason, that opened the lid first." Signs of Trouble Ahead. American Medical Association News, 22/11/76 

 

Pre-Natal Sex Determination in India  Pregnant women wait for their Noninvasive Ultrasound test in St. Stephens Hospital in New Delhi. Pre-Natal Sex Determination is not done at St. Stephens, but many private clinics do it against the law. Boys are preferred over girls by many families and the birth rate of girls is declining in India, surprisingly more in the richer neighborhoods

     

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