{"id":2342,"date":"2016-10-11T03:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T03:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2016-10-11T03:20:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T03:20:50","slug":"international-day-of-the-girl-child-girl-baby-saved-from-sex-selective-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/international-day-of-the-girl-child-girl-baby-saved-from-sex-selective-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the Girl Child: Girl Baby Saved from Sex-Selective Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"baby-girl\"October 11 is the International Day of the Girl Child.\u00a0 As we celebrate the beloved women and girls in our lives, let us also remember the 200 million girls worldwide who have been the victims of sex-selective abortion — girls like \u201cLian,\u201d who was almost aborted, but whose life was saved by our \u201cSave a Girl\u201d campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lian\u2019s family lives in a remote village in rural China, where life is hard.\u00a0 Life for Lian\u2019s mother is especially hard. Her grandfather on her mother\u2019s side suffers from paralysis.\u00a0 His condition has caused financial hardship because the family has no insurance, so they have spent all their money on his medical care.\u00a0 They have even taken loans from relatives, though they do not know how they will be able to pay these off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lian\u2019s mother was already very stressed when she found out that she was pregnant.\u00a0 Her family told her it was not a good time to have a baby, but they were willing to support the pregnancy if the child were a boy.\u00a0 When the doctor told them that she was pregnant with a girl, Lian\u2019s grandmother on her father\u2019s side began to pressure her mother to have an abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This poor mother did not want to abort her daughter, but she did not know what to do.\u00a0 Then, she heard about our \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign and reached out to us for help to save her daughter\u2019s life.\u00a0 A fieldworker traveled to Lian\u2019s village, knocked on the door of their humble home and offered hope.\u00a0 She told Lian\u2019s mother that girls are just as precious as boys.\u00a0 She offered\u00a0 Lian\u2019s mother a monthly stipend for a year to empower her to keep her daughter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lian\u2019s mother gratefully accepted our offer of help.\u00a0 She gave birth to Lian, a beautiful and healthy baby girl, and she is delighted with her new daughter.\u00a0 Lian\u2019s mother told our fieldworker that, without our help, she \u201cwould have no chance to see her daughter, who now makes her so happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Will you help us save women and girls in China? Become a \u201cGirlSaver\u201d!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In honor of the International Day of the Girl Child, won\u2019t you help us save more girls like Lian?\u00a0 So far, we have saved more than 200 girls, and yet there are millions more who are being aborted and abandoned just because they are girls.\u00a0 Each one of these girls is infinitely precious.\u00a0 Please help us save them by donating to our \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more about how you can help to save girls here: <\/span>http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=give<\/a><\/p>\n

For $25 per month, or $300 per year, our GirlSavers have helped WRWF save at-risk babies in China, babies like Lian, who may not be alive if one of our undercover fieldworkers had not met her mother and assured her that little girls are as special as boys. We put our money where our mouth is, offering practical assistance to empower these mothers to keep their daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 11 is the International Day of the Girl Child.\u00a0 As we celebrate the beloved women and girls in our lives, let us also remember the 200 million girls worldwide who have been the victims of sex-selective abortion — girls … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,124,128,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gendercide","category-save-a-girl","category-sex-selective-abortion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}