Aborto contra as mulheres

Women live in a very insecure world indeed. Many fall victim to gender selective abortion and infanticide (boys being preferred to girls).

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Selective abortion and female infanticide Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate for Economics, estimates that more than 60 million women are demographically ‘missing’ from the world as a result of sexselective abortions and female infanticide in China, South Asia and North Africa.

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Infanticide has been practised throughout human history in societies where boy children are valued, economically and socially, above girls. Advances in technology permit the modern horror of selectively aborting female foetuses. Medical testing for sex selection, although officially outlawed, has become a booming business in China, India and the Republic of Korea.

In: "Woman in an insecure world" - Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (Sep. 2005)