Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Interesting admissions
In an NPR feature on sex selection in Oriental countries where boys now outnumber girls 2 to 1.
In other words, the pro-life movement is saving lots of lives here, whether the elite baby-killers want to admit it or not.
Apparent contradictions tell you that you're making a bad assumption somewhere in your reasoning. Feminists assume that Muslim countries give women "low status" because they want women to dress modestly. An assumption that nobody questions, but obviously a bad assumption. ¶ 7:25 AM
A lot of listeners may be thinking, "Wait a minute; in these countries, women don't have really good access to sex selection." But that's not true. ... There's a very different context surrounding abortion in Asia. In the U.S., a woman may have to brave picket lines to get an abortion. She may not have a clinic in her town. But in many parts of Asia abortion is readily available, and so is ultrasound.
In other words, the pro-life movement is saving lots of lives here, whether the elite baby-killers want to admit it or not.
Gender discrimination in developing nations does not fully explain the drop in the number of girls born. "You have countries where women have very low status — in the Middle East for example — and the sex ratio at birth is balanced."
Apparent contradictions tell you that you're making a bad assumption somewhere in your reasoning. Feminists assume that Muslim countries give women "low status" because they want women to dress modestly. An assumption that nobody questions, but obviously a bad assumption. ¶ 7:25 AM
