Reply #66: LIVE topic -- 163,000,000 Missing Women in Asia

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Mara Hvistendahl's book, "Unnatural Selection," presents a staggering view of on-going attacks on the very lives of baby girls. In China, India and South Korea, there are many more men than women.

In nature, roughly 102 to 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. Hvistendahl reports that in Northeast India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121 — though some Chinese towns are over the 150-to-100 ratio. This perversion is not only seen in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.

This is technology run amok. Cheap ultrasound tests are used to tell them that the mother is carrying a girl. Over the last three decades the resulting abortions are reflected in demographic distortion -- 163 million girls are missing from the world.

Call these "fetuses" or "unborn children" or "girls." The result is the same. Millions of very, very young females are being killed. The results to those societies include heightened male violence and drops to male IQ and general social health. Personality disorders are the big winners.

A Surplus of Men, A Deficit of Peace: Security and Sex Ratios in Asia's Largest States

Journal Article, International Security, article in the Spring 2002 edition. Andrea Den Boer, Valerie M. Hudson.

Abstract ::: This issue begins with an article by Valerie Hudson of Brigham Young University and Andrea Den Boer of the University of Kent. Hudson and Den Boer trace the rise in offspring sex selection in China and India that has resulted in a "surplus" of young men. They argue that such surpluses of men increase the potential for internal and external violence, while diminishing the prospects for democracy. This phenomenon could destabilize the two countries, the region, and beyond.

A 163,000,000-man army can ruin anybody's afternoon. Think of the UK football hooligans, multiplied by 1,000. China has hired 2,000,000 into police jobs which cannot be taken seriously as a long-term solution to this problem.

Mara Hvistendahl and internal memoranda in WHO are strongly encouraging outlawing use of ultrasound for sex identification for fetuses. That would have to be enforced with prison sentences and 'sting" operations on the ultrasound shops. Dire problem, tough response.

This disaster has no connection to American abortion law. Nothing whatsoever.