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Where Have All the Women Gone?
Abortion and Gendercide By John Stonestreet with Roberto Rivera Nearly thirty years ago, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen wrote an essay in the New York Review of Books entitled “More than 100 Million Women are Missing.” Sen didn’t mean “missing” as in “missing person.” He...
Raising a banner to save baby girls in China at March for Life D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Women’s Rights Without Frontiers will carry an 8-foot banner to “End Gendercide” – the sex-selective abortion of baby girls -- in China, at the March for Life today in Washington, D.C. “The United States has about one million abortions a year,” Reggie...
Helpful Talking Points when talking to Canadians about gendercide
By Mike Schouten * Canada is a nation that has long promoted the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law. The unfair discrimination against females as manifested by sex-selective abortions is something Canadians don’t tolerate and I believe parliament...
Fears of Indian gendercide after fetuses found in sewer
By Xavier Symons Indian authorities have discovered 19 aborted fetuses dumped in plastic bags in the western state of Maharashtra, as officials continue a major investigation into illegal sex-selective abortion in the country. The fetuses were discovered in a sewer...
Are Canadian dollars contributing to gender-based violence?
Editor’s note. This appeared yesterday on the pro-life blog weneedalaw.ca and is reposted with permission. On this, International Women’s Day, we do well to consider: what are we as a nation doing to address gender-based violence? Last week Canada committed $20...
UN: Gendercide abortion means Armenia is heading towards “demographic crisis”
Editor’s note. This come from SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned that sex-selective abortion is seriously skewing the ratio of men to women in Armenia, according to Yahoo News. The UNFPA...
International Day of the Girl Child: End gendercide in China — Girl baby saved from sex-selective abortion
An estimated 200 million women will not be celebrating International Day of the Girl Child today, because they are not alive. They were selectively aborted just because they were girls – victims of “gendercide.” Son preference runs amok in both China and India; both...
Gendercide becomes an issue in Canada
By Michael Cook The problem of gendercide has spread from India to Canada, researchers claim in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). A statistical analysis of births in Ontario found that the male-to-female sex ratio at birth -- which ranges between 1.03...
Abortion and cultural profiling – political incorrectness at its finest
By Anna Neinhuis Reports released this week drew attention to the ongoing use of abortion to select a child’s sex. This is a practice that is illegal for in vitro fertilization, but unrestricted in utero. Abortion is a free service with no questions asked, and it is...