Millions of ‘missing girls’ in Asia: The toll of abortion, abuse and discrimination
Hat-tip: LifesiteNews The problem of “missing girls” in which more boys are born than girls, as girl fetuses are presumably aborted, and women die from health and nutrition neglect— is actually growing. Birth gender disparity is greatest in East Asia, where 119 boys are born for every 100 girls.
China and India together account more than 85 million of the nearly 100 million “missing” women estimated to have died from discriminatory treatment in health care, nutrition access or pure neglect ?or because they were never born in the first place, the Report found. Read the UN Development Project here
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