That’s Father Raymond de Souza’s view. I tend to agree. I’ve been asked multiple times over the past days what the solutions are to eradicating sex selection abortion. The fact is that in a permissive abortion regime, there are none. And the people who could end the permissive abortion regime don’t want to, ergo, they really don’t care about missing women.
My favourite line:
Is all of [the missing women] due to abortion of girls in utero? No. In 1990, much of it was due to female infanticide. But the arrival of inexpensive ultrasound technology in rural Asia in the 1990s meant that the killing became easier to do before birth rather than after.
On a radio show yesterday I struggled to find the right words, to be less aggressive, more amenable with the general public. How to discuss these “missing women?” I struggled but landed on “killing” too. There just isn’t another word. And while I don’t want to be harsh, I have vowed to not use euphemisms in discussing abortion, either.
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Ezra Levant basically put it that, “either we value the lives of those babies before they’re born or we don’t.” If we care about these girls we’re missing, we should care about all the missing lives. If we really are annihilating a female person when we abort a female fetus, then logically, we are killing a person with every abortion. There are no two ways…
Oh, and see Ezra’s rant here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4O8nKQer53Q
And that’s why the pro-choice side doesn’t want to touch this subject. It would be admitting the personhood of the girl babies, hence admitting the personhood of all babies. The abortion ship is beginning to leak big-time. One man said to me that abortion would fall just like the Berlin wall. Perhaps he is right.
That’s exactly what I was thinking when I read the news story a couple days ago. If all of a sudden baby girls are human life worth saving and giving a chance, then why don’t people see that all babies are human beings, worth a chance at life?
I hope that a number of people who’ve been “on the fence” experience a change of heart when they see the hypocrisy in how sex selective abortion is bad, but the rest is apparently okay.
Ahem. The pro-choice side has been on this issue for ages. Here’s a blogpost from the last time it came up, in 2011.
http://scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.com/2011/08/on-those-missing-girls_24.html
Not gonna lie, Fern. I have a really hard time taking someone who uses the term “fetus fetishist” seriously.
I give those who are pro-choice respect on this blog, and I suppose that is why many, even you, keep returning to comment from time to time. Same can’t be said of your site.
You run your blog, I’ll run mine. I don’t think I’ve used ‘fetus fetishist’ here.
I returned to comment because one of your commenters repeated the oft-hurled ‘Where are the feminists?’ remark. Feminists are on this, as my link demonstrates, despite what some would like to believe.