legalinsurrection.blogspot.com - 4/11/2009
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Talk about the law of unintended consequences. In countries where a woman has a virtually unfettered right to choose abortion, the result is that women overwhelmingly choose to abort female fetuses. A just published study , reported in the NY Times , of Chinese population growth ties a pending ...
mahablog.com - 4/11/2009
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mahablog.com —
Proof that someone with a law degree can
still be an idiot — The infamous one-child policy...
paired with the practice of sex-selective abortion has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls . In Chinese culture, sons are an economic asset and daughters a ...
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Idiots With Degrees
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/13/2009
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Aha. So the "tea parties" are to a
large extent being run by Freedom Works, which is...
basically Dick Armey with a lot of Koch-Scaife-Bradley-Olin support. Same old, same old.
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Armey of darkness
reproductiverights.org - 4/11/2009
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reproductiverights.org —
09.01.06 - The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted
a shadow letter to the 36th session of the...
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women highlighting violations of reproductive and sexual rights of women in China. A Chinese ...
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Center Shadow Letter on China Sees Results at UN | ...
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Choosy choicers choose back-alley abortions in China
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Choosy choicers choose back-alley abortions in China posted at 11:15 am on April 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Legal Insurrection notes an interesting contradiction at the Center for Reproductive Rights . In response to the demographic distortion that China’s one-child policy has produced, the CPR has called for an end to forced abortions and government imposition of reproductive policy. So far, so good; we can broadly agree on those goals. However, CPR also opposes gender-selective ...
Coming soon to America?
Sister Toldjah —
... the disparity was widest among children ages 1 to 4, a sign that the greatest imbalances among the adult population lie ahead. They also found more distortion in provinces that allow rural couples a second child if the first is a girl, or in cases of hardship.
Those couples were determined to ensure they had at least one son, the researchers noted. Among children born second, there were 143 boys for 100 girls, the data showed.
Legal Insurrection, a blog that notes this is also a huge problem in India, comments: ...
Idiots With Degrees
The Mahablog —
... of women (think footbinding). Footbinding has stopped, but there are living women with bound feet, so we’re not talking about something ancient. The practice of footbinding, like female circumcision, reveals women complicit in their own oppression, forcing their daughters to go through what they’d been through because they’d been taught it was right. And cultural conditioning that extreme takes many generations to fade away.
So, what does this genius have to say about the male surplus story?
In countries where a woman ...
The Power, Right, or Liberty to Choose
Comments from Left Field —
... Finally, this is what happens when ideological or religious fanatics who do not understand the concept of choice read an article such as the one quoted above and decide they must comment on it: They conclude that this is what happens when a woman has the right to choose abortion: ...
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