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Aborting girls in China is exaggerated and you're certainly over playing it. What about the girls lives saved by cheap medical technology? Certainly one theor
by aaron695 9y ago
Aborting girls in China is exaggerated and you're certainly over playing it.
What about the girls lives saved by cheap medical technology?
Certainly one theory on the gender imbalance is girls tend to get less medical care due to costs and as such die at higher rates.
- jbarham 9y agoIs 100 million "killed, aborted or neglected" girls exaggerated? Or do you have better sources than the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 (Note that article is from 2010, there have been many more since.)
- aaron695 9y agoDime a dozen that dispute that figure but my biggest issue is with this comment is - > to China where parents will pay a lot of money for a black-market ultrasound No, normal parents don't abort girls, normal parents don't infanticide girls. The Chinese are not some sort of subhuman race that on mass do awful things to their children. Not a fan of the New Republic but it talks about the issue (and the racism behind it) https://newrepublic.com/article/133845/truth-chinas-missing-daughters https://newrepublic.com/article/133845/truth-chinas-missing-...