The Independent reports on a new documentary:
It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters.
The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are ‘missing’. India and China are said to eliminate more female infants than the number of girls born in the US each year. Lianyungang in China has the worst infant gender ratio on record with 163 boys born for every 100 girls. Taiwan, South Korea and Pakistan are also countries in which unwanted female babies are aborted, killed or abandoned.
That may be four words rather than three (depending on how you count the contraction), but never mind that. More info on the documentary here.
Via Kottke.
January 19th, 2012 | 9:07 am
I shudder to imagine Asia in twenty to thirty years. Ever read Frank Herbert’s The White Plague?
January 19th, 2012 | 10:09 am
Baby killing is already so far below moral standards that one might be excused for wondering whether how this makes it more horrible. Is sex-selective abortion perhaps more evil then abortion for the sake of sloth?
January 19th, 2012 | 3:45 pm
“(O)ne might be excused for wondering whether how this makes it more horrible.”
Hmm. You condemn a significant portion of your society’s men to an adulthood without a life partner or children. You contribute to the instability of your culture, your neighborhood, and your nation’s security. Sexism, treason, fraud, prostitution, polyandry, war, civil unrest, rape, slavery: maybe none of them are as bad as murder, but consider them all wrapped up in one neat package.
January 19th, 2012 | 5:48 pm
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January 20th, 2012 | 11:50 am
“Hmm. You condemn a significant portion of your society’s men to an adulthood without a life partner or children. You contribute to the instability of your culture, ”
Which doesn’t tell whether it is more evil, only whether it has a more obvious natural punishment.
The point is that worrying about whether sex-selection abortion is worse then sloth-abortion is as meaningless as worrying about whether Hitler or Stalin was more evil.
January 20th, 2012 | 6:01 pm
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