Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Sex Test, Abortion and the War against Girls (Timothy Dalrymple)

It is one of the cruelest ironies of the modern abortion movement that while the movement advanced under the banner of women’s rights, it is unborn girls, in monstrously disproportionate number, who have been aborted.

If you must read only one thing this weekend, it should be Jonathan Last’s book review of “Unnatural Selection” by Mara Hvistendahl in today’s Wall Street Journal. Hvistendahl’s book treats the spread of sex-based abortion and the deleterious consequences for societies that systematically abort females. Read it first for the statistics, which are gobsmacking. The natural birthrate is 104-106 boys for every 100 girls. Yet Hvistendahl — who is reflexively pro-choice, by the way — documents the wild disproportions abortion produces around the world:   MORE...

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