The War Against Girls
The WSJ has a book review of “Unnatural Selection,” Ms. Mara Hvistendahl. The author writes that selecting male babies and aborting females since the 1970s has resulted in the killing of 163 million girls. The Book Review is titled “The War Against Girls.” Hvistendahl’s main worry is that the Christian Right will use this information to take away our right to choose.
She believes that something must be done about the purposeful aborting of female babies or it could lead to “feminists’ worst nightmare: a ban on all abortions.”
A feminist’s worst nightmare would actually be another 163 million girls deliberately killed. There are consequences for us all if this continues. Societies that have an imbalance, more men than women are violent places:
There is indeed compelling evidence of a link between sex ratios and violence. High sex ratios mean that a society is going to have “surplus men”—that is, men with no hope of marrying because there are not enough women. Such men accumulate in the lower classes, where risks of violence are already elevated. And unmarried men with limited incomes tend to make trouble. In Chinese provinces where the sex ratio has spiked, a crime wave has followed. Today in India, the best predictor of violence and crime for any given area is not income but sex ratio.
Actions have consequences, and we will soon reap what we’ve sown.
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