A newly published book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, by investigative journalist Mara Hvistendahl, shows that 160 million baby girls have been victims of gendercide, mostly by abortion.
The surprising thing about this new study is that its author is pro-abortion.
It is this contradiction between the author’s support for abortion as a right and the facts and analysis she presents that makes this book important. In a review for the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Last concludes his review of the book thus:
Despite the author's intentions, Unnatural Selection might be one of the most consequential books ever written in the campaign against abortion. It is aimed, like a heat-seeking missile, against the entire intellectual framework of "choice." For if "choice" is the moral imperative guiding abortion, then there is no way to take a stand against "gendercide." Aborting a baby because she is a girl is no different from aborting a baby because she has Down syndrome or because the mother's "mental health" requires it. Choice is choice. One Indian abortionist tells Ms. Hvistendahl: "I have patients who come and say 'I want to abort because if this baby is born it will be a Gemini, but I want a Libra.' "
This is where choice leads. This is where choice has already led. Ms. Hvistendahl may wish the matter otherwise, but there are only two alternatives: Restrict abortion or accept the slaughter of millions of baby girls and the calamities that are likely to come with it.
To watch a an interview with Jonathan Last who reviewed the book for the The Wall Street Journal, click here
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