{"id":208751,"date":"2019-08-26T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=208751"},"modified":"2019-08-26T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:53:51","slug":"womens-equality-day-abortion-fixed-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/womens-equality-day-abortion-fixed-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"This Women’s Equality Day, it’s time to acknowledge that abortion has fixed nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Each year in the United States, Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on August 26th in celebration of the day in 1920 that women received the right to vote. When he signed the proclamation in 1973, Richard Nixon wrote<\/a>, “The struggle for women’s suffrage… was only the first step toward full and equal participation of women in our Nation’s life. In recent years, we have made other giant strides by attacking sex discrimination through our laws and by paving new avenues to equal economic opportunity for women. Today, in virtually every sector of our society, women are making important contributions to the quality of American life. And yet, much still remains to be done.” Since then, every U.S. president has likewise issued a proclamation for Women’s Equality Day, yet little attention is paid to one of the worst injustices women still face in the United States: abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abortion advocates continue to argue that women need abortion to be equal to men, that the ability to kill preborn children is one of the most sacred rights a woman has. Yet has abortion truly helped women’s equality? Has it improved women’s circumstances? In every way, abortion has only further contributed to the inequality women face, and to the oppression stacked against them.<\/p>\n

Gendercide<\/strong><\/p>\n

The targeting of baby girls for abortion is largely thought to be an issue that affects women in countries like China and India. And indeed, these countries have participated in gendercide on perhaps the largest scale on the planet, leading to horrific consequences<\/a>. Yet gendercide isn’t limited to just China and India; it happens around the world, leading to skewed gender ratios. This has been seen in countries like Australia<\/a>, the United States<\/a>, and the United Kingdom<\/a>. In Scotland, a midwife even admitted women weren’t being told the sex of their babies<\/a> over fears that they would choose abortion.<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations, there are over 100 million missing girls<\/a> worldwide due to gendercide. The shortage of women has led to things like an increase in sex trafficking, prostitution, crime, as well as epidemics of loneliness, depression, and suicide, and babies abandoned or killed because they’re the wrong gender.<\/p>\n

And when it comes to gendercide, the abortion industry is complicit.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Lila Rose at The Hill: Aborting children for disabilities \u2018corrupts the fundamental principle of equality\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n