Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Indians don't like daughters

A doctor found that fully 89% of Indian immigrant women carrying girls opted for an abortion, and nearly half had previously aborted girls. Many Indian immigrant women, when it was learned that they were carrying girls, became the victims of family violence. Some — in an effort to make them miscarry — had been slapped and shoved around by angry husbands and in-laws, or even kicked in the stomach. Others were denied food, water, and rest in order to coerce them into aborting their unwanted girl babies. It is not just Indians who like aborting their offspring. Columbia University economists Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund also found clear evidence of sex-selective abortions in what they called “son-biased sex ratios,” that is, a higher ratio of boys to girls than would occur in nature. Looking at the sex ratio at birth among U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian-Indian parents, they found that first-borns showed normal sex ratios at birth. But if the first child was a girl, the sex ratio jumped to 117, and if the first two children were girls, then the sex ratio jumped to 151. That is to say, for every 151 boys, there were only 100 hundred surviving girls. The rest had been eliminated. Abortion is also popular with African-Americans. The abortion rate among blacks is about five times higher than the American average. Blacks are only 12% of the population but have 37% of the abortions.

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