And see the Calgary Herald, "It's a girl! Action must be taken to stop sex-selective abortions":
Preventing women from learning the gender of their unborn babies before the 30th week of pregnancy may not be the best way to solve the problem of sex-selective abortions, but at least it would be a gesture that shows Canada is concerned about the issue.The Third-World-ing of First World counties. And Ezra just hammers the progressive hypocrisy here on abortion all around. Sick and unreal.
The recommendation was made by Dr. Raj Kale in an editorial published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, which said that "female feticide" is happening in North America "in numbers large enough to distort the male-to-female ratio in some ethnic groups." It is estimated a few hundred such abortions may be occurring yearly in Canada among women belonging to cultures where sons are more prized than daughters.
A 30-week rule, as symbolic a gesture of disapprobation as it may be, is well-nigh unenforceable. There may be some doctors who don't wish to abide by it and some patients who, denied the information from one doctor, may go to another, possibly across the border, to get it.
It is truly deplorable that anyone would abort a baby simply because it is not of the desired gender. The problem is huge in India, China and other cultures where sons are highly valued, and has caused alarm among officials in those countries. The Chinese male-to-female ratio is so skewed by a combination of China's one-child policy and the aborting of female fetuses that the ramifications for future generations of adult men seeking wives will be very serious. And in India, it is estimated that millions of girls are missing from the population - girls who should have been born, but were aborted because they weren't boys.
For real change to come about, there must be deeper cultural paradigm shifts regarding embedded attitudes about girls and women. And those shifts need to come about without the obfuscation and equivocating of pro-choice groups who whine that while sex-selective abortions are not something to be applauded, no one should interfere with a woman's right to choose.
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As long is this is something that is being done exclusively by brown people, it won't get a lot of scrutiny. It's entirely un-PC to suggest that non-white, non-Christian, non-Western cultures are doing something wrong.
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