Wednesday, May 9, 2007

A "choice" to eliminate gilrs

Situations when unborn girls are aborted because their parents want boys are not specific to China or India. It happens in Canada too. Moreover - sex-selection abortions phenomenon is not something new to Canada. It's been happening for years and the consequences could now be noticed in schools.
Heather Stilwell has given out 5,000 book bags to Surrey, B.C. kindergartners over more than a decade. In recent years, the number of pink bags has decreased as the number of girls in the classes has been falling.
The government is doing its best to hide this information from the people. In 2001, the B.C. government passed Bill 21, a law that tightly restricts public access to abortion data, making any such information a "password-protected database". But the consequences of gender selective abortions could be clearly visible. While the normal ratio is 105 boys for 100 girls, in some communities there could be as many as 110 to 114 boys for every 100 girls. While the unborn boys are obviously no exception when it comes to abortions, more girls are denied right to life - just because they are girls.

What's the most frustrating is the response from organizations that claim to defend women's rights. The so called "abortion rights coalition of Canada" claims that being "pro-choice" means supporting this "choice" even if it's a choice to eliminate girls. Those same radical feminists who shed crocodile tears commemorating the victims of the Montreal Massacre are perfectly fine when girls are being murdered for being girls while they are still in the womb.

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