¿Qué hacer cuando una niña nacida o por nacer vale menos que una cabra…?

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Abandonarla, cambiarla por una cabra, o abortarla: tal ha sido el destino de 100 millones nacidas o por nacer, víctimas de:

-Los “prejuicios” culturales.
-Los nuevos hábitos familiares.
-La eficacia de las nuevas técnicas médico / abortivas.
-El relativismo moral y económico: “Un chico es más rentable que una chica…” etc.

El Economist llama Gendercide a tal “proceso histórico”. Género / sexocidio suena fatal:

Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising.
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You are part of the new middle class; your income is rising; you want a small family. But traditional mores hold sway around you, most important in the preference for sons over daughters. Perhaps hard physical labour is still needed for the family to make its living. Perhaps only sons may inherit land. Perhaps a daughter is deemed to join another family on marriage and you want someone to care for you when you are old.
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For millions of couples, the answer is: abort the daughter, try for a son.
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For those who oppose abortion, this is mass murder. For those such as this newspaper, who think abortion should be “safe, legal and rare” (to use Bill Clinton’s phrase), a lot depends on the circumstances, but the cumulative consequence for societies of such individual actions is catastrophic.
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It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide. Women are missing in their millions—aborted, killed, neglected to death. In 1990 an Indian economist, Amartya Sen, put the number at 100m; the toll is higher now.
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The destruction is worst in China but has spread far beyond. Other East Asian countries, including Taiwan and Singapore, former communist states in the western Balkans and the Caucasus, and even sections of America’s population (Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, for example): all these have distorted sex ratios. Gendercide exists on almost every continent. It affects rich and poor; educated and illiterate; Hindu, Muslim, Confucian and Christian alike.
In fact the destruction of baby girls is a product of three forces: the ancient preference for sons; a modern desire for smaller families; and ultrasound scanning and other technologies that identify the sex of a fetus. [ .. ] [The Economist, 4 marzo 2010. Gendercide].

Las negritas son mías.

• Mujeres en los mercados de cosas y seres perdidos.
• Desfloración de mujeres con fines publicitarios.
• Mujeres, cuerpos desnudos, comercios e hipocresía filantrópica.

• Sociedad en este Infierno.

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