Posted on 06/18/2011 2:26:32 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.
BY JONATHAN V. LAST
Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential matter. She is right to be. In China, India and numerous other countries (both developing and developed), there are many more men than women, the result of systematic campaigns against baby girls. In "Unnatural Selection," Ms. Hvistendahl reports on this gender imbalance...
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In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad.
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Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. China's and India's populations are mammoth enough that their outlying sex ratios have skewed the global average to a biologically impossible 107.
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What is causing the skewed ratio: abortion...by Ms. Hvistendahl's counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world. Moral horror aside, this is likely to be of very large consequence.
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...such imbalances are portents of Very Bad Things to come. "Historically, societies in which men substantially outnumber women are not nice places to live," she writes. "Often they are unstable. Sometimes they are violent."
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The economist Gary Becker has noted that when women become scarce, their value increases...But..."this assessment is true only in the crudest sense." A 17-year-old girl in a developing country is in no position to capture her own value. Instead, a young woman may well become chattel, providing income either for their families or for pimps.
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How’s the AIDS treatment going Cliff?
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Hmm. “Supposedly”. My favorite of the weasel words.
ROTFLMAO, you post tripe that comes from vile bigotry and then try and claim that it represents the Truth taught by the Catholic Church. Sorry Cliff, no sale. You made a claim and failed to back it up — all hat and no cattle is a lousy way to ranch. You have waaaay too many years of postal service under that prodigious belt of yours to get any respect here.
Then, learn to read correctly, and be polite. You are not adding anything of consequence here.
I have absolutely no desire to engage you in any sort of discussion. None.And yet you did. How droll.
All those betting “long” on China need to take a look at this article.
Combining the horrors of abortion and communist tyranny in one rancid social stew, China’s future looks very bleak and violent indeed.
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