Sex Reversal
16th April 2009
Sixteen million girls are missing in China. And now we know what happened to them: They were aborted because they weren’t boys.
And this was in Slate? Hell has just frozen over.
Two hundred boys for every 100 girls. The number is mind-boggling.
Indeed. Historically, having a lot more young boys than young girls leads to war. China’s no threat? Just wait.
It’s a terrible convergence of ancient prejudice with modern totalitarianism. Girls are culturally and economically devalued; the government uses powerful financial levers to prevent you from having another child; therefore, to make sure you can have a boy, you abort the girl you’re carrying.
A pro-choice policy that carries its own cure for feminism. Thank you, Margaret Sanger.