100 Million 'Missing' Girls

Jeff Jacobey writes in the Boston Globe about the global war on women via selective birth, a tragedy brought about by the dark side of modern science. Ultrasound allows one to find out the babies gender before it is born, which also allows one to abort a female baby if she is not wanted. This is beginning to skew the numbers of men to women in some areas of China by as much as 124 to 100. What does one do with a huge population of men with no prospects for marriage? This does not bode well for the future.

The Chinese writer Xinran Xue writes in a new book, “Message from an Unkown Chinese Mother,’’ about visiting a peasant family in Shandong while the mother is giving birth. The baby turns out to be a girl, and Xinran hears a man’s voice mutter: “Useless thing!’’ To her horror, the “useless thing’’ is thrown into a pail of slops to be drowned.

“That’s a living child,’’ I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail.

“It’s not a child,’’ she corrected me. “It’s a girl baby, and we can’t keep it. Around these parts, you can’t get by without a son. Girl babies don’t count.’’