{"id":61147,"date":"2015-03-20T11:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=61147"},"modified":"2015-03-21T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T14:33:12","slug":"lila-rose-to-un-one-of-the-biggest-killers-of-girls-today-is-sex-selective-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lila-rose-to-un-one-of-the-biggest-killers-of-girls-today-is-sex-selective-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lila Rose to UN: One of the biggest killers of girls today is sex-selective abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Over 100 million girls are missing because of sex-selective abortion, and sadly, many pro-abortion activists\u00a0oppose sex-selective abortion bans in the name of &#8220;women&#8217;s rights.&#8221; They either deny that it happens in developed countries, or claim that women have the right to do what they want with their own body, regardless of how offensive others might find their reasoning behind the abortion.<\/p>\n<p>One of Live Action&#8217;s investigations exposed how <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/gendercide\/\">gendercide is alive and well in the United States<\/a>, with thousands of baby girls aborted just for being girls.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1q6_Nx3f4EU\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And last week, at a United Nations panel at the Commission on the Status of Women, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose gave a gripping presentation that ended with a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10153198257043000\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10153198257043000\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lilagracerose\">Lila Rose<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Calling sex-selective abortion &#8220;one of the biggest killers of girls today&#8221;, Rose pulled no punches, saying that this needs to become a core issue. With clips aired of Planned Parenthood employees showing how women could obtain sex-selective abortions, it became clear that this is not a problem reserved solely for countries like China and India. But regardless of where sex-selective abortion primarily occurs, it is our responsibility to respect the inherent value and dignity of <em>all<\/em> humans, no matter what their race or gender is.<\/p>\n<p>Rose drove this point home, asking, \u201cIf we don\u2019t treat the weakest members of society with the respect that we have for ourselves, how is that justice? How is that equality? How is that upholding human rights?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 million girls are missing because of sex-selective abortion, and sadly, many pro-abortion activists\u00a0oppose sex-selective abortion bans in the name of &#8220;women&#8217;s rights.&#8221; They either deny that it happens in developed countries, or claim that women have the right to do what they want with their own body, regardless of how offensive others might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[496,156,205,2438,2437,157,450],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lila Rose to UN: One of the biggest killers of girls today is sex-selective abortion - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lila-rose-to-un-one-of-the-biggest-killers-of-girls-today-is-sex-selective-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lila Rose to UN: One of the biggest killers of girls today is sex-selective abortion - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over 100 million girls are missing because of sex-selective abortion, and sadly, many pro-abortion activists\u00a0oppose sex-selective abortion bans in the name of &#8220;women&#8217;s rights.&#8221; 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