{"id":201490,"date":"2019-05-07T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201490"},"modified":"2019-05-13T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T02:33:52","slug":"23-million-girls-missing-sex-selective-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/23-million-girls-missing-sex-selective-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: More than 23 million girls missing due to sex-selective abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A <\/span>groundbreaking new global demographic study<\/span><\/a> has found that the world is missing at least 23.1 million females who would otherwise have been born, but fell victim to sex-selective abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The peer-reviewed study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on April 15th, <\/span>resulted from a five-year project<\/span><\/a> of combing through data from over 90 countries around the world identified as having the most complete statistical data for the period of the study, 1950 to 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n

The authors attribute the millions of missing women to three causes. First, certain cultures have a strong preference for male children. Second, sex identification in the womb and legalized abortion have become widespread throughout the world. Third, \u201cfertility has fallen to low levels\u201d and resulted in a \u201csqueezing effect\u201d in which parents use sex selection to attain their preferred family composition and size. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the only part of the population who can produce new kids are women under the age of 45, and a whole bunch of them are missing, it\u2019s going to have an obvious impact on the fertility of a population,” Canadian political scientist Darrell Bricker said, according to Wired<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Why are sex-selective abortions so offensive, if abortion itself isn\u2019t?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The authors found 12 countries where being a preborn girl is especially dangerous: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Republic of Korea, Montenegro, Taiwan, Tunisia, and Vietnam. However, by far the vast majority of the sex-selective abortions occurred in China (11.9 million) and India (10.6 million), countries with significant cultural misogyny problems and <\/span>some of the most radical and oppressive abortion policies in the world<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In India, the cultural misogyny is exhibited in violence against women<\/a> which includes honor killings, dowry deaths, and culturally-accepted female infanticide and sex-selective abortion, as well as high rates of sexual violence.<\/span>\u00a0India was named by the Thomson Reuters foundation<\/a> as one of the most dangerous countries for women in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That said, sex selection abortion isn’t just happening in these countries, as an undercover Live Action investigation revealed.<\/p>\n