By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Recent gender ratio statistics suggest that girls are being targeted for abortion in Australia because couples prefer to have boys. On average, between 102 and 106 boys are born for every 100 girls born around the world – meaning an average for boys of 105.5 in …
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By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Several times a week we repost a story that appeared a year ago in NRL News Today primarily because it remains particularly relevant. This post/repost goes back several years, but because, I believe, it touches on an area of acute vulnerability for the Abortion Industry and its legion of apologists, …
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By Right to Life UK A new Bill is being introduced to the Parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales, which seeks to make sex-selective abortion illegal. The Bill, introduced by Fred Nile MLC in November, would amend the Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 to prohibit abortion on the grounds of the child’s …
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By Brittany Summers On June 2 of this year, a sex-selective abortion ban bill in Canada failed in a 248-82 vote. Bill C-233, advanced by Cathay Wagantall, a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons in Canada, would have made it illegal to abort a baby solely based on its sex. Here we see another …
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Sex-selective abortion is a well-documented issue around the world By Right to Life UK Professor Tsovinar Harutyunyan, the Assistant Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Armenia, has recently spoken out about the devastating impact of sex-selective abortion on the country’s demographic future. At a recent webinar for the University of Southern California’s …
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By Nancy Flanders A new study has revealed that there will be 4.7 million fewer girls born over the next 10 years due to sex-selective practices around the world — mainly sex-selective abortion. That could mean 22 million missing girls over the next 80 years, completely disrupting the already lopsided global gender balance. The study, published …
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By Sarah Terzo A pro-abortion activist admits that abortions happen because the baby is a girl and the couple wants a boy: As a movement, we need to have a social debate about the merits of abortion for sex selection in a world that not only privileges but “chooses” male babies … [T]he preference for …
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By Michael Cook On March 4, 2010, The Economist ran one of its most memorable covers: a completely black page, except for a pair of tiny pink shoes with frilly bows the bottom. The headline was “Gendercide: what happened to 100 million baby girls?” Good question. The answer is that they were aborted or killed, mainly in China …
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By Michael Cook According to the United Nations, “around 140 million women are believed to be ‘missing’ around the world – the result of son preference, including gender-biased sex selection, a form of discrimination.” Ten years ago, UN agencies, including the OHCHR, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WHO issued a position paper condemning the elimination …
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By Michael Cook On March 4, 2010, The Economist ran one of its most memorable covers: a completely black page, except for a pair of tiny pink shoes with frilly bows the bottom. The headline was “Gendercide: what happened to 100 million baby girls?” Good question. The answer is that they were aborted or killed, mainly in China …
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By Mike Schouten Today Members of Parliament voted against sending Bill C-233, the Sex Selective Abortion Act to committee for further study. Introduced by Saskatchewan MP Cathay Wagantall, the bill would have prohibited physicians from knowingly performing sex selective abortions – a practice that is disproportionately used to target girls. Despite Erin O’Toole’s emphatic pro-choice …
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Could be as high as 22 million By Right to Life UK A paper published last month by a leading medical journal estimated that 13.5 million or more baby girls were aborted in sex-selective abortions in India between 1987 and 2016. While India outlawed sex-selective abortion in 1994, it has remained a common practice and …
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