Aborting 10 Million Girls In India

A comprehensive study of over a million Indian families has confirmed that in India, Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim families alike abort baby girls at a high rate.

Globally, if not interfered with, slightly more girls than boys are born. (An indication of God's provision for war?) But in India, with first-birth families, the ratio is 959 girls for every 1,000 boys. Among families in which a girl was born first, the ratio for second babies falls to 759 girls for every boy, BBC reports. (It drops to 719 if a family already has two girls.)

The study says that 10 million baby girls have been aborted (or sex-selected out of existence) in the last 20 years. Figures for the number of boys aborted were not provided. Given India's population and the ratios in the story, the number seems low.

I checked on the Web site of the National Organization for Women, but its news page was so full of pro-abortion stories there was no room for an article about the outrage of the selective killing of the future women in India. I guess they're OK with the ultimate suppression of women's rights, so long as the woman isn't born yet.

(As NOW is with China, where similar practices are common.)

If NOW's agenda of equal pay for equal work were applied to India and China, much of the killing would stop. Especially in rural areas, these are seen as socio-economic abortions: A boy is seen as another pair of hands, able to work and support the family, whereas a girl is seen as a liability, because she can do little but clean and eat until she's married off.

Yet, the study found that the "girl deficit" was more common among educated women, so this murdering of girls-to-be has just as much to do with the "socio" as the "economic."

Nations with a Judeo-Christian heritage value girls and boys equally, despite the protestations of NOW and other feminist groups. Abortion in these countries is a (poor) family planning tool, not a sex-selection tool.

Still, the secular left continues to say our faith makes us sexist. How odd.

(Photo: Rachel Olsson)