Posted on 05/02/2019 11:10:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
NEW YORK, May 3 (C-Fam) Sex-selective abortion has caused the premature death of over 23 million females, according to the first-ever systematic global study of sex ratio imbalance.
Demographers have noted the phenomenon of skewed sex ratios for decades. Millions of females are missing because of sex-selective abortion. This has led to increased trafficking in children and women. It has also led to increased rates of suicide, depression, and substance abuse among unmarried men. But the global scale of the phenomenon and how many girls exactly have been aborted has relied on uncertain estimates.
Now, for the first time, demographers have undertaken to study the phenomenon of skewed sex ratios due to sex-selective abortion systematically across the globe in a study published in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences with funding from the University of Singapore.
The natural sex ratio around the globe, with few variations due to genetics and geography, is around 1.05, or about 100 women to every 105 men. But the sex ratio at birth in many countries is in some cases dramatically skewed.
It is difficult to estimate the global impact of sex-selective abortion because abortions, and sometimes even births, are not always accurately tracked. The new study devised a statistical model for predicting the total impact of sex-selective abortion in countries that have a skewed sex ratio.
The authors found 23 million baby girls are missing globally as a “direct consequence of sex-selective abortion, driven by the coexistence of son preference, readily available technology of prenatal sex determination, and fertility decline.”
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I read about some guy who agreed to have his girlfriend’s baby aborted. He went on to become a pastor and spoke of having “lost a child to abortion.”
That’s like the Menendez brothers
losing their parents to murder.
Would that be Lon Solomon, by any chance. He runs a Bible-believing (as far as I can tell) church in northern Virginia. I listened to his sermon on God’s plan for sex and marriage one night.
As it turned out, before he came to Christ at age 21, Pastor Solomon had around a dozen female sexual partners, IIRC, and he got one of his girlfriends to abort their kid. But the way he talks about it now, having been Saved 25 years ago, he freely says that he murdered his child, not that he lost his child to abortion, as though abortion was some item with independent agency that stalked him and his lover.
That sounds like the guy. I’m not clever enough to make up ‘lost to abortion,’ on my own, though. Sorry I can’t cite it.
Like I said, Mr. Solomon painted the event in his sermon on sex and marriage as murdering his own child. An open admission of what he did, and how he now regards it. So maybe you’re thinking of another pastor.
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