The War Against Girls (Unintended Consequences of Abortion)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 2011-06-18

[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.

[muawiyah]

I’m sure the redheads came from the Celtic fringe and Scandinavia.

[muawiyah]

Speaking of calumny, arguing from the present that your ancestors weren't desperate people puts a lie to their very existence.

Be thankful they did what they did else you'd not be here.

[MarkBsnr]

I’m sure the redheads came from the Celtic fringe and Scandinavia.

The Celtic people are Germanic/Gallic. They moved away from Germany to Britain, not vice versa.

[Valpal1]

Of course, the reference to the parliament at Nuremburg (1650) was a protestant parliament, not the Catholic Church.

Serious misremembering of facts.

[narses]

I recall Luther favoring bigamy for Phillip, at least if my memory hasn’t died. The Church? Not so much.

[muawiyah]

That's the old now discredited theory. They are all readily differentiated by their DNA ~ language and cultural similarities simply didn't do the job.

The Germans, in any case, were tributary to the Celtic speakers along the lower Danube.

Gaelic was brought into the British Isles as recently as 700 BC by Celts who'd former lived in the Black Sea region (see Danube). They took over Spain. Over the next few hundred years they cleverly enslaved their neighbors (today's Basques) and took them to Hibernia. Today's Irish and the Basques are remarkably identical in mtDNA and other markers, although their languages are vastly different.

[muawiyah]

No, not a disremembering ~ I simply did a quick search and the first thing referenced Nuremburg. You can do a greater indepth search and find out what folks did then.

[MarkBsnr]

Mitochondrial DNA is a powerful tool, admittedly. Yet, we have the Celts moving west, not east. I don’t see the support of the statement that the Germans were influenced genetically by the Celts moving back east.

[Valpal1]

First you claim the Catholic Church authorized polygamy and when asked for a reference, you provide the example of a non catholic parliament.

You’re not the knowledgeable person you pretend to be on the internet. You sure sound authoritative though.

[sayuncledave]

Nah, and nope. Just sought “plural marriage in Catholic Church” on google. No jackpot for you. It’s your assertion, you back it up, or retract it, FRiend. The closest found included, among other things, quotes belonging to Mr. Luther you’d not enjoy. Try again, please, but this time, with facts, please.

[muawiyah]

You are simply not trying hard enough.

[narses]

You are simply not trying hard enough.

[muawiyah]

"Supposedly" is a word fraught with meaning.

Learn it first. Then we'll talk. But what you need to look for is "plural marriage" and then look for "germany" within those results using the "find" command on your browser. Then you can find out what people CLAIM the RCs were up to back in the day. Note, I did not say the pope did it, just that I've seen it asserted ~ hence the word "supposedly".

If you want to get uppity about Religion I'd like to remind you that the Guise Faction conducted the first ambush in the French Religious Wars, so it's ALL your fault!

[muawiyah]

That's because you don't understand that Europe was repopulated after the Ice Age by people who'd been trapped in two refugia ~ one in Northern Spain along the Pyranees and the other on the Adriatic coast (Serbia/Dalmatia).

Later agriculturalists from the Middle East began moving into Europe from the Mediterranean coast.

Obviously populations mixed ~ to a degree ~ but Northern and Western European populations came from those two refugia. Their Indo-European languages arrived THOUSANDS of years later.

For all practical purposes the Celtic and Germanic people are IDENTICAL but there are threads of mtDNA within each population that suggest various admixtures from outside.

In short, everybody in Europe spread out from a location on the Bay of Biscay or on the Adriatic until otherwise demonstrated. The flow has been mostly from the West to the East, or to the North, or to the South.

The very first population to "break out" of the Western refugia as the ice began to melt headed straight for the Arctic, as well as to North Africa, East Asia and to America. Later populations left the refugia as forests returned ~ but they, too, moved rapidly into Eastern Europe.

[sayuncledave]

I am a speed reader. I went through 4 pages of links. Sufficient enough. You made the assertion. If you’ve enough wherewithal to say a thing, kindly either do so with evidence to substantiate your claim, or retract. That’s the second opportunity for a graceful out on your earlier claim, by the way. You may say you were mistaken, if you wish. My aim is not to puff my chest up. Nor to put you down. Whether we agree all the time or not, we are, in some respects, birds of a feather. All I ask is that you back your claim. Will you do so?

[MarkBsnr]

Interesting.

The model that I am familiar with presents a general westward flow of the Celts through Germany to Britain.

[muawiyah]

That's based on language ~ not on ethnotype as reflected in mtDNA. All the Celtic Fringe and all the Germans and all the Scandinavians and even the Souvr'n Europeans descend primarily from people who were in the Western Refugia along today's French and Spanish border.

The languages came later ~ mostly as Middle Eastern (the Indo-European languages arose in the East around or near the Black Sea) agriculturalists moved West!

[MarkBsnr]

Even more interesting.

I shall have to go out and do some research. Thanks for the information.

[Eaker]

Note, I did not say the pope did it, just that I've seen it asserted ~ hence the word "supposedly".

In Texas that is called bullshitting.

In more polite phraseology it is called spreading unsubstantiated rumors or lying.

I have seen it asserted that my tagline is an actual Lincoln quote is no different than what you are doing.

[Teacher317]

Liberal insanity never ends. They clearly are irreversibly and ultimately tied to constant abortion on demand... but they also want to decry the statistical aberration ("an offense against nature!") and treatment of females as second-class citizens ("the misogynistic world!"), so...

Since they can't bring themselves to limit abortion in any way (the only unlimited "right" that is "in" the Constitution, the only "solution" (because liberals believe that all issues should be resolved by government regulation) is to monitor abortion and force the proper male-to-female ratios of the "procedures".