Not another girl - the ultimate sexual discrimination: femicide!

Back in 2011, there was an interagency statement from OHCHR, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WHO on preventing gender-biased sex selection which highlighted the tradition of patrilineal inheritance in many societies coupled with a reliance on boys to provide economic support, to ensure security in old age and to perform death rites are part of a set of social norms that place greater value on sons than daughters.

As a result, women are often under immense family and societal pressure to produce sons. Failure to do so may lead to consequences that include violence, rejection by the marital family or even death. Women may have to continue becoming pregnant until a boy is born, thus putting their health and their life at risk. Sex selection can take place before a pregnancy is established, during pregnancy through prenatal sex detection and selective abortion, or following birth through infanticide or child neglect. Sex selection is sometimes used for family balancing purposes but far more typically occurs because of a systematic preference for boys.

In 2020 under COVID, I became a grandfather to a wonderful granddaughter Daisy so it breaks my heart and spiritual understanding as to why anyone would even consider female infanticide - the deliberate killing of girl babies.

This gender-selective killing or "gendercide" is indeed the ultimate in sexual discrimination.

So, where are the feminists, the BLM mob, the gender equality proponents to name a few in rallying to stop gender-selective killing? – their silence is deafening!

In 1990, Indian economist Amartya Sen published an article titled 'More than 100 million women are missing'. It rang an alarm bell for the world about increasing SRBs (the sex ratio at birth which is the ratio of newborn baby boys to baby girls). The issue of sex selection discussed sex selection as a problem arising from son preference and discrimination against girls from the early stages of their lives- compounded by new technologies that can determine foetal sex and facilitate abortion of female foetuses.

Let's be candid, prenatal sex testing followed by sex-selective abortion represents a blatant form of discrimination – it is harmful and unethical and for me as a Christian unbiblical under any circumstance.

The pivotal theme linking many unresolved questions is whether concerns about prenatal sex selection can and should be separated from concerns about abortion, more generally, and other forms of parental discrimination against young daughters. Our collective insights into these thorny issues have heretofore failed us, due to both powerful pro-choice political forces and secular preference for abortions, euthanasia and voluntary assisted dying (suicide) all in the name of so-called 'progress' from the morally bankrupt looney left-wing advocates.

Abortion is not pro-life so to allow it to flourish is not only morally and biblical wrong, but it also makes a mockery of 'discrimination laws' given abortion restrictions occur in some legislatures that target specific populations by banning abortion based on race selection – is there a contradiction here somewhere? Don't all lives matter?

Abortion must be prohibited irrespective of race or sex (gender). If the self-proclaimed 'progressives' want to be truly consistent in promoting gender equity, then put an end to all abortion – particularly sex selection abortion. Dum vita est, spes est