GENDERCIDE: 200 MILLION WOMEN 'MISSING'
Exclusive: Joseph Farah reports on impact of 'anything goes' abortion polices
Practically any politician who proclaims a belief in even the most modest regulation of abortion is labeled as “anti-woman” and part of a so-called “war on women.”
Ironically, that’s even the case when it comes to matters like parental consent laws, waiting periods, full-disclosure requirements about the risks, late-term abortions and restrictions on the use of the procedure for the purpose of sex selection of babies.
In China, where population control is severely enforced, abortion is widely used to eliminate girls after determining through ultrasound the sex of the child. As a result, far more boys than girls are birthed every year.
In Vietnam, where boys are preferred for cultural reasons, women resort to abortion for sex selection to please their husbands. Recently, one Vietnamese woman appeared on Vietnamese television to explain she had aborted 18 baby girls so she could give her husband the son he wanted.
But this is not a phenomenon restricted to China, Vietnam and other faraway lands. It’s a worldwide plague – one I first dubbed “gendercide” 18 years ago.
That’s when the World Health Organization, part of the United Nations, released a report explaining that 50 million women were estimated to be “missing” from the population in China because of the institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing’s one-child policies. Many of the girls were killed while still in the womb – the victims of ultrasound technology that revealed the baby’s sex. Others, WHO said, were starved to death after birth, the victims of violence or were not treated when they became ill.
Just to put this story in perspective, WHO was documenting what can only be described as the biggest single holocaust in human history – and doing it in a surprisingly clinical and low-key fashion. I declared then that the little-noticed report cries out for a new word in our vocabulary – “gendercide.”
But the news has only gotten worse 18 years later.
There’s a new United Nations report out that finds there are now up to 200 million girls “missing” today because they have been killed, abandoned, or aborted because of their sex. And in the cases of sex-selective abortion, those missing persons would have been wives, daughters, best friends, sisters and mothers.
The new U.N. report demonstrates, once again, that ideas have consequences. In this case, at least 200 million female lives have been snuffed out worldwide – and that’s if you accept the U.N. report on face value. There are many reasons to suggest the U.N. is biased in the direction of underplaying the statistics. The U.N., for instance, does not take issue with China’s one-child policy, which is responsible for so much of this holocaust.
It happens in America, too – not despite the radical feminist demands for “equality,” but precisely because of them. Restrictions or regulations on any kind of abortion can never be tolerated, they say, because they are “anti-woman” and part of the phony, made-up “war on women.”
Can there be any doubt it happens in the U.S. at least sometimes?
Should it ever happen?
Can “progressives” admit there are bad reasons to get an abortion?
It seems to me the real fanatics on the abortion issue are those who insist that any reason – or no reason at all – is good enough to kill an unborn child.
Am I crazy? Or are the “progressives”?
We’re approaching another high-profile presidential election in 2016. It’s important for candidates running for office to turn the tables on the real abortion fanatics.
It’s important for you to understand the reality of “abortion on demand” as the de facto law of the land.
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