Red China: Ultrasounds Used to Kill Girls

Gary Bauer tells us the following:

In China, sex-selective abortions are so widespread that the government is now concerned about a devastating gender imbalance. In some regions, 140 boys are born for every 100 girls. Yet, despite this demographic disaster, the Chinese government continues to persecute women who exceed their quota of children (usually one child). Some women are imprisoned, tortured, or forcibly aborted or sterilized.

The effects of China’s crusade to slow population growth, and its resulting gender-gap, have caused a number of significant socio-economic problems. First, since women are scarce, prostitution has become a powerful industry. The U.S. State Department estimated that as many as 10 million people in China were involved in prostitution in 2001. Predictably, the rise in the sex-trade has brought with it an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. The Chinese government, which tends to underestimate these statistics, has said that more than 120 million Chinese have hepatitis B and over one million have HIV. Also the trafficking in infants and women has increased sharply, and China’s female suicide rate is five times the world average.

Cental planning means misery.Human Events