Posted on 11/11/2025 10:04:12 PM PST by Morgana
Several years ago, I traveled to Amsterdam as part of the National Right to Life delegation for a multi-issue pro-family conference. The event brought together representatives from dozens of countries and organizations working in maternal health, children’s welfare, family policy, and religious freedom. Over the course of four days, the conference addressed a spectrum of bioethical concerns: euthanasia, adoption, trafficking, and the global expansion of abortion access under the guise of reproductive health.
Our delegation included Dr. Wanda Franz, then president of National Right to Life, and her husband, Dr. Gunter Franz, as well as Olivia Gans. We installed NRLC’s large exhibit booth in the main convention hall. It featured fetal development models, scientific literature, fact sheets, and multilingual brochures explaining the consequences of legalized abortion. The aim was to present abortion not as a theoretical concept but as a physical reality, one that leaves lasting scars on families and societies.
The exhibit attracted steady traffic. People came from incredibly diverse backgrounds, African health ministers, Latin American NGO leaders, Eastern European parliamentarians. Many stayed to ask questions. Some took materials for translation. Others simply wanted to talk.
The scale of interest reflected a shared understanding: life issues are not local or parochial. They are global.
One conversation remains distinct. A couple from Kerala, a state in southern India, approached our booth late in the afternoon on the second day. They wore conference badges like everyone else, but their reason for attending went beyond professional interest. They had started a crisis pregnancy center in their city and hoped to replicate it in nearby regions. Their mission had a narrow and urgent focus: saving unborn girls from sex-selective abortion.
They did not begin with statistics. They started with stories. In their region, cultural preference for male children remained entrenched. Women carrying daughters often endured threats or emotional coercion from their in-laws or husbands. The social penalty for giving birth to a girl, especially after already having daughters, could include abandonment or violence.
Families that could afford prenatal diagnostics often terminated the pregnancy if the fetus was female. Families who could not afford such tests sometimes waited until birth, then took lethal action. The couple said that their work included home visits to women who had recently given birth to ensure the survival of the newborn girls.
That conversation reframed everything I had seen that day. While the conference focused heavily on Western legal frameworks, institutional lobbying, and national-level policy debates, their experience exposed a layer of violence hidden from formal channels. They were not arguing theory. They were trying to save lives on the ground, one by one.
India passed the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act in 1994. It prohibits prenatal sex determination and sex-selective abortion. In practice, enforcement of this law has been fragmented and inconsistent. As of 2025, only 617 convictions have occurred under the act. Eighteen Indian states have not recorded a single conviction in recent years, despite widespread evidence of violations.
The technology used for sex determination has become mobile and difficult to monitor. Ultrasound equipment no longer remains confined to hospitals or clinics. Providers now use portable devices and travel across state borders. Sex-selective abortions often occur in unregistered facilities or private residences. Abortion-inducing drugs are widely available through unofficial channels and used without oversight.
Recent examples illustrate the breadth of the problem. In September 2025, health officials from Karnataka, working with law enforcement in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, intercepted an illegal abortion arranged for a woman who was five months pregnant with her fourth daughter. In April of the same year, investigators in Uttar Pradesh uncovered a network of clinics distributing abortion pills and performing illegal procedures, leading to more than 120 first information reports. In Gujarat, a radiologist and a nurse were arrested after operating a covert abortion service out of guesthouses and private homes.
The demographic effects have reached crisis proportions. According to the Sample Registration System (SRS) for 2023, India’s national sex ratio at birth stands between 917 and 929 girls per 1,000 boys. In some areas, the imbalance is more extreme. Haryana, for example, has reported ratios as low as 879.
The Pew Research Center estimated that in just ten years, between 2009 and 2019, 17.3 million girls were missing due to sex-selective abortion. When deaths from postnatal neglect are included, that figure rises to over 63 million women unaccounted for in India’s population.
These numbers do not exist in a vacuum. The surplus of men in certain regions has created long-term social distortions: forced marriages, increases in trafficking, and growing instability in rural communities. The gender imbalance also undermines efforts to improve education, reduce poverty, and expand healthcare access. Societies that eliminate girls before birth reduce their future economic and civic potential.
At the Amsterdam conference, many organizations addressed the importance of international cooperation, law reform, and cultural engagement. But few conversations acknowledged the gender-specific nature of abortion in p
laces like India and China. When abortion becomes embedded in a society already shaped by gender discrimination, it evolves into a tool of control. The victims disappear quietly.
The Kerala couple did not frame their mission as political. They saw it as a matter of moral necessity. They provided support to pregnant women without institutional backing. They educated families about the dignity of their daughters. They did what policy alone could not accomplish.
The work of saving girls in India is urgent. It requires more than legislation. It requires enforcement of the law, cultural shifts, international attention, and sustained support for those doing the work at significant personal cost. It also demands that we abandon euphemisms and face the consequences of abortion policies that ignore context and reality.
What I witnessed in Amsterdam was not merely a cultural or ideological difference. It was a clear example of how modern tools, legal abortion access, medical diagnostics, and mobile technology can combine with ancient prejudices to produce new forms of violence.
And the world, for the most part, has remained silent.
LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.
I’m not saying this is happening tomorrow, it may very well not happen at all, but I DO say it could happen here.
But it won’t have anything to do with sex selection - it will just be an excuse for more control over people’s lives, what Marxists crave more than anything.
When cavemen did not have enough females they sought them out else where. This is what China is doing right now.
India cavemen will be forced to Bangladesh, Pakistan, or Shri lanka for wives. Then the whole process with start all over again of aborting females because you can’t fix stupid.
It is happening in the U.S. among immigrant populations who come from countries that devalue girls.
Bingo! Just like with paternity tests - after any (technologically enabled) social "advance" is made, if it eventually becomes apparent that it hurts their cause / benefits men, they will scream for prohibitions.
Thus, genetic testing (with the intention of culling "inferior" embryos) is a "blessing" - until it becomes noticeable that it's being used for sex selection (in favor of baby boys).
Likewise, genetic testing (with the intention of screening for hereditary disease) is a "boon" - until husbands use it to reveal their wives' infidelity.
So while this won't lead to "abortions of males being made mandatory," they will want to enact legislation forbidding the doctors to inform the parents about the unborn child's sex (already the case in India and, more recently, Bangladesh; the ban in South Korea was recently lifted).
Doesn't make sense, does it? Effectively, you can thus legally kill the unborn child for any reason - except on the basis of its sex (i.e., unless it's because it's a girl), or on the basis of the mother's promiscuity (i.e., unless it's because it's a bastard) - see corresponding legislation in France, Germany, and Switzerland!
A person could almost think that we were living in a gynocracy!
Regards,
Regards,
And fifty years ago, you'd have had to have been crazy to claim that trannies would be serving as four-star admirals here in the States (see: Dr. Rachel Levine).
Regards,
Those other countries are likewise proponents of the infanticide of female (unborn) babies. In fact, in all of these countries, the number of BORN female children who die (= are murdered) in the first months of life due to deliberate neglect is estimated to be three or four times higher than the number aborted because of their sex.
These countries will thus have to look elsewhere for their sex slaves.
Regards,
Excellent point!
Lots of barbaric practices you say would be "unthinkable" here in the States are gaining ground due to the growing legal/illegal immigrant populace: Radical clitorectomies (vulgo: genital mutilation), abortion of female fetuses, etc.
We have no cause to be complacent.
Regards,
Sure it is. Walk into any large corporation. Just a sea of curry.
If a couple cannot accept one gender or the other when embarking on conception of a new life, they do not qualify to become parents.
Soon, having children will require a license.Each will be taxed by Kali.
“The answer to the problem is birth control.”
The easiest solution is to start a war with Pakistan getting rid of excess males.
China is a Communist society with a totalitarian government. India is a Hindu based society with a federal system where government enforcement is not as thorough as in China. I am not familiar with Hinduism’s position on abortion. However, conservative Christianity and orthodox Judaism are unique in that they oppose abortion for reasons other than to save the life of the mother.
China has always been anti-girl.
I did not know or perceive India having the same problem. This is news to me …
Just to clarify, it's "Thou shall not murder." The left likes to conflate the death penalty with abortion, often citing the incorrect translation of the Ten Commandments.
“Just to clarify, it’s ‘Thou shall not murder.’”
THANK YOU! “Thou shalt not MURDER” is the correct translation.
KJV is my preferred version of the Bible, but I’m not one of those people who believes it’s perfect. Some do.
Lots of homo sex going on over there.
It ain’t Surf City.
Ignorance has a price, the chinese did it and now the indians are doing it.
Abortion for a preferred sex.
The cult of baal.
Worship: Worship of Baal was widespread in the ancient Middle East and
included rituals like ritualistic prostitution and, at times, child
sacrifice, notes Encyclopedia of the Bible.
Biblical context: The Bible warns against Baal worship, portraying it as
a direct challenge to the worship of the Lord, notes Christianity.com.
The prophet Elijah famously confronted the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel.
India and China need to have a war, to kill off the excess males.
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