In the USA 50 MILLION healthy babies have been killed, both boys and of course more girls, and in all cases the majority are colored minorites. In other places 100 MILLION - many killed after birth. In a Christian based society this will never happen! The God/Bible said 2000 years "men and women are equal in Christ, there is no male or female difference" and that has shaped the Christian Western society and the elevation of women you will find here and NO WHERE ELSE to that degree.




Posted: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 5:44 am ET

The reality has been known for years now, though the Western media have generally resisted any direct coverage of the horror. That changed this week when The Economist published its stunning cover story -- "Gendercide -- What Happened to 100 Million Baby Girls?"

In many nations of the world, there is an all-out war on baby girls. In 1990, economist Amartya Sen estimated that 100 million baby girls were missing -- sacrificed by parents who desired a son. Two decades later, multiple millions of missing baby girls must be added to that total, victims of abortion, infanticide, or fatal neglect.

The murder of girls is especially common in China and northern India, where a preference for sons produces a situation that is nothing less than critical for baby girls. In these regions, there are 120 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls. As The Economist explains, "Nature dictates that slightly more males are born than females to offset boys' greater susceptibility to infant disease. But nothing on this scale."

In its lead editorial, the magazine gets right to the essential point: "It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide. Women are missing in their millions--aborted, killed, neglected to death."

In its detailed and extensive investigative report, the magazine opens its article with chilling force. A baby girl is born in China's Shandong province. Chinese writer Xinran Xue, present for the birth, then hears a man's voice respond to the sight of the newborn baby girl. "Useless thing," he cried in disappointment. The witness then heard a plop in the slops pail. "To my absolute horror, I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail. The midwife must have dropped that tiny baby alive into the slops pail!" When she tried to intervene she was restrained by police. An older woman simply explained to her, "Doing a baby girl is not a big thing around here."

The numbers of dead and missing baby girls is astounding. In some Chinese provinces, there are more than 130 baby boys for every 100 baby girls. The culture places a premium value on sons, and girls are considered an economic drain. A Hindu saying conveys this prejudice: "Raising a daughter is like watering your neighbor's garden."

Midwives even charge more for the birth of a baby boy. But the preference for a boy rises with both economic power and the number of children born to a couple. The imbalance of boys to girls is no accident -- it reflects a prejudice that runs throughout the societies where the abortion and killing of baby girls is considered both understandable and routine.

Add to this the widespread availability of ultrasound imaging services. Even though the governments of China and India have officially declared sex-selection abortions to be illegal, they persist by the millions. (And, interestingly, the magazine notes that Sweden actually legalized sex-selection abortions in 2009.)

This sentence from the investigative report is particularly horrifying: "In one hospital in Punjab, in northern India, the only girls born after a round of ultrasound scans had been mistakenly identified as boys, or else had a male twin."

In other words, even as the spread of ultrasound technology has greatly aided the pro-life movement by making the humanity of the unborn baby visible and undeniable, among those determined to give birth only to baby boys, in millions of cases the same technology has meant a death warrant for a baby girl in the womb.

There are multiple factors that lead to the preference for boys over girls. In China, the government's draconian "one child only" policy has led to both forced abortions and an effective death sentence for baby girls when a couple is determined that, if their children are to be so drastically limited, they will insist on having a son. As the magazine explains, "For millions of couples, the answer is: abort the daughter, try for a son."

Consider this:

In fact the destruction of baby girls is a product of three forces: the ancient preference for sons; a modern desire for smaller families; and ultrasound scanning and other technologies that identify the sex of a fetus. In societies where four or six children were common, a boy would almost certainly come along eventually; son preference did not need to exist at the expense of daughters. But now couples want two children—or, as in China, are allowed only one—they will sacrifice unborn daughters to their pursuit of a son. That is why sex ratios are most distorted in the modern, open parts of China and India. It is also why ratios are more skewed after the first child: parents may accept a daughter first time round but will do anything to ensure their next—and probably last—child is a boy. The boy-girl ratio is above 200 for a third child in some places.

The social consequences of this imbalance are vast and uncorrectable. China and India now face the reality of millions of young men and boys who have absolutely no hope of a wife and family. In China, these young men are called guanggun or "broken branches." Just consider this -- the 30 to 40 million "broken branches" in China are about equal in number to the total number of all boys and young men in the United States.

These young men represent a looming disaster on the societal level. Young males commit the greatest number of criminal acts and acts of violence. Marriage has been the great taming institution for the social development of young males. Without prospect for marriage and a normal sex and family life, these multiple millions of unmarried young men are becoming a significant social challenge in China and India. Some observers even argue that this may lead to an increased militarism in the region.

Of course, the greatest disaster is personal for the young men and boys who face the future as "broken branches." The parents who insist on having boys are dooming their own sons to lives of brokenness, frustration, and grief.

And the future looks even more ominous for baby girls. Nick Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute points to "the fatal collision between overweening son preference, the use of rapidly spreading prenatal sex-determination technology and declining fertility." As the magazine adds, "Over the next generation, many of the problems associated with sex selection will get worse. The social consequences will become more evident because the boys born in large numbers over the past decade will reach maturity then. Meanwhile, the practice of sex selection itself may spread because fertility rates are continuing to fall and ultrasound scanners reach throughout the developing world."

While imbalances such as now found in China and India are unknown in the West, the practice of sex-selection abortion is found here as well. Indeed, there is no current law against the practice in the United States, where abortion is legal for any reason, at least in earlier stages of pregnancy. In reality, sex selection abortions happen here, too. After all, proponents of abortion in the United States infamously insist on a woman's unrestricted right to an abortion "for any reason, or for no reason."

The Economist is right to call this tragedy gendercide -- the targeting of baby girls for death and destruction simply because of their gender. The magazine deserves appreciation for its no-holds-barred report on this tragedy, and for forcing the issue to be faced. Furthermore, The Economist ends its editorial with the right message, "The world needs to do more to prevent a gendercide that will have the sky crashing down."

Will reports like this awaken the conscience of the world to the unspeakable crime and global tragedy of gendercide? If not, what will it take? The blood of millions of murdered and missing baby girls cries out to the world's conscience. Will we hear?

http://www.albertmohler.com:80/2010/03/11/the-scandal-of-gendercide-war-on-baby-girls/?action=print

Will reports like this awaken the conscience of the world to the unspeakable crime and global tragedy of gendercide? If not, what will it take? The blood of millions of murdered and missing baby girls cries out to the world's conscience. Will we hear?

Can you please keep your religious propaganda out of this site. This has nothing to do with DR at the moment, so do us ALL a huge favor and stop preaching to us. Wasn't it enough that our natives got slaughtered under the pretexts of Christianity???

No free speech?

If the Christians did not show up you would still be sacrificing live 15 year old virgins and babies! You woul dalso not have the computor you will use to respond


BTW: 100 million babies killed is the whole world's problem, unless like you, you prefer to remain in a corner all by yourself as a "nation".

I don't give a s... what I would and wouldn't have, at least we wouldn't live in a world dominated by corrupt religions and their leaders. To each his own, but it's enough of your right wing christian agenda.

Your rant on how the west and Christianity value human life more than the Chinese is not only uninformed but also gross and offensive.
Oh, and exactly in what passage does it say women and men are equal? I remember this in Leviticus 27:3-7 God places a dollar value on human life; with women worth less than men.

And this: Numbers 30:3-16 A woman can’t make a vow unless her husband allows it.

And this: Deuteronomy 20:13-15 Kill all the men and boys in the cities that God “delivers into your hands,” but keep the women for raping.

In 1 Peter 3:7 we find: "Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers."

Ephesians 5:22-24 we find this: "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."

Doesn't seem equal to me.

Clearly on my other post I'm not saying that this is not a problem. It's just a different culture, different than ours and we have no business meddling in their affairs. This doesn't mean that the West/Christianity is better because we certainly don't have a monopoly on morals, in fact a lot of theJewish/Christian philosophy has its origins in Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism.

Furthermore I think they should be allowed to have an abortion if they don't want the baby for whatever reason, it is a better option than to have it dumped in a dumpster after birth.

enough of your left wing BS idiocy! No one is making you read this thread - right???

1. As Christians we follow ONLY the NEw TEstament so the OT passages are not relevant.

2. When those two passages where the basis for mrriage divorce was under 5%. Now that the Western world has tossed out Biblical WISDOM in favor of adultry and fornication it is 50%. And think of the BILLIONS of lives impacted by divorce! The suffering kids, and grand children, the poverty due to the SELFISHNESS of MOM and DAD.

The verse you left out says: "Husbands love your wives AS Christ loved the church and gave Hmself for her"

1. Jesus DIED, a horrble death, for His bride the Church.
2. Christian hsubands must seek to meet that HIGH standard of selflessness.
3. When they do - which means putting the wife's interests and desires FIRST - you have an awesome marriage!

Not the crap you see all around you ----

People who do not move in our circles have NO IDEA what they are missing!

1. Abortion - you say go ahead - now how will you solve the problem - not enough girls to go around? 100 MILLION short! Man by ignoring God's morals ALWAYS makes a terrible mess, andman will never learn! He is morally STUPID!

2. Not all cultures are equal. No culture can compare with the Christian culture - valuing FAMILY, respecting WOMEN, valuing children (other cultures use, abuse, abandon and sacrifce them)

Only the Christian relgion teaches salvation by GRACE ALONE, you cannot earn it or pay for it. Not one relgion before or after has this concept! It predates all other religions as it is found throughout the OT and the NT.