Based on the natural sex ratio from other countries, the researchers estimated that 13.6 to 13.8 million girls should have been born in India in 1997 but the actual number was 13.1 million. The [annual] deficit amounts to between 590,000 and 740,000 female births.
Prabhat Jha and colleagues say: “We conservatively estimate that prenatal sex determination and selective abortion accounts for 500,000 missing girls yearly. If this practice has been common for most of the past two decades since access to ultrasound became widespread, then a figure of 10 million missing female births would not be unreasonable. Women who have already had one or two female children are clearly at highest risk.”
“Female infanticide of the past is refined and honed to a fine skill in this modern guise. It is ushered in earlier, more in urban areas and by the more educated … A careful demographic analysis of actual and expected sex ratios shows that about 100 million girls are missing from the world – they are dead.”
What was that about how abortion is a fundamental women’s right and necessary for their “reproductive freedom”? It seems a very peculiar sort of right that guarantees the mass murder of the very class to whom it is supposed to belong. I’m glad that Jha and company are drawing attention to this abomination, but that last sentence in the second paragraph is a bizarre way to put it… it’s not the woman that is at risk, it’s her daughter.
There is nothing – nothing – more delightful than little girls. It is testimony to the manifold evil of feminism that it murders millions of them and then goes on to corrupt the survivors.
It is telling to note that even in an overtly patriarchal society practicing infanticide, a little girl has a better chance of survival than in one where women are given the “right” to commit abortion.