14 DAY TRIAL // There is a normal natural sex ratio slightly biased in favor of the boys: 103-106 male newborns to 100 female newborns in all human populations. But researchers have noticed that at about 20 years old, this ratio can be 100:100, as male babies are more vulnerable to diseases and have a higher mortality rate. But the sex detection technology in embryos which emerged in the 1970s has disrupted this balance and installed in many countries the practice of gendercide.
Over 100 million embryos have been aborted for the "crime" of being female since 1970s and 1980s, and this is just the beginning. "When given a choice, people would overwhelmingly opt for a boy." predicted Professor Jerome Lejeune, the pro-life geneticist who developed the amniocentesis test.
After only 30 years, historic son preference in many cultures has led to a massive drop on female birth rates. Of course, the increasing Chinese sex imbalance is one of the first gendercide signaled: statistics say there are 70 million more boys than girls in China. And annually, 2 million more men than women are born.
Official data show a sex ratio at birth of 130 - 135 boys for every 100 girls (!) in the south Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Hainan (these are absolute world records). The Chinese One-Child Policy for population control has just aggravated the crisis. Perhaps the second country in this infamous hierarchy of sex-control is India. Up to 10 million girls were selectively killed there in the last 20 years. In India, this is due to the financial burden of paying a marriage dowry for daughters. In the 1990s, sex-detection tests deliverers advertised: "Pay 500 rupees ($14) now rather than 500,000 rupees ($14,000) later."
Now, it is illegal in India to inform on the sex of the fetus, but this does not impede the phenomenon too much. Surprisingly enough, the statistics show that the level for aborting girls is much higher in cities among wealthy and highly educated people than in backward rural areas.
Another reason for aborting girls, common in India, China and other countries, is the traditional or religious belief that only a son can do the funerary rites for his parents and ancestors. The 2001 Indian census showed a sex ratio of 118 male newborns to 100 female newborns in the capital Delhi, from 111: 100 in 1991 and far higher than the already unbalanced national average of 108: 100. This pattern is valid also in China and other nations. Taiwan and South Korea also experience gendercide.
The U.S. Census Bureau's Judith Banister noted that "public concern about the 'missing girl' problem in Asia focuses on the plight of the men who will be unable to find brides 20 years hence. "Some neighboring countries, like Japan and Indonesia, do not experience gendercide and have a normal sex ratio. But the phenomenon is not limited to Eastern/Southern Asia. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia present hallucinating ratios of 115-120 male newborns for every 100 female newborns. Some are worried that military adventurism and internal violence could be outcomes for societies with disproportionate numbers of unmarried young men. Some pervert implications of gendercide could be that the increasing global scarcity of women will turn them more "valuable" as a group, like elevating the social status of the victims. But in practice, in societies that practice gendercide, young women are treated even less humanely as they become scarcer: their current lack has in fact triggered an increased women trafficking as sex slaves, and it did not increase their social prestige.