{"id":5212,"date":"2025-03-09T00:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2025-03-09T00:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T00:57:42","slug":"china-sex-selective-abortion-of-baby-girls-remains-rampant-for-third-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/china-sex-selective-abortion-of-baby-girls-remains-rampant-for-third-children\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Sex-Selective Abortion of Baby Girls Remains Rampant for Third Children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China:\u00a0 Sex-Selective Abortion of Baby Girls Remains Rampant for Third Children \u2013 133 Boys for Every 100 Girls Born:\u00a0 Report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China released a startling statistic in its most recent annual report: \u201cData published this past year showed on average, boy-preference for couples having a third child, with 133 boys born for every 100 girls, across China.\u201d  <\/strong>2024CECC Report<\/a>, pp 155.  See also pp. 160 and 166.  Such a vast gender imbalance cannot be achieved naturally.  It can only be achieved through the sex-selective abortion of baby girls \u2013 through gendercide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report does not provide a statistic on how many third children are born in China each year.  It is, therefore, not possible to determine how many female third children were selectively aborted because of their gender.  The report does, however, state that in 2023, there were an estimated 30 million more males living in China than females.  This gender imbalance in turn is a powerful, driving force behind human trafficking and sexual slavery, in China and the surrounding countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The confluence of four factors has resulted in the selective abortion of 30 million baby girls:  son-preference; coercive low birth limits (under the one, two and three-child policies); the availability of ultrasound to determine the sex of a fetus; and easy access to abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 8 marks International Women\u2019s Day.  This year\u2019s theme is “For ALL Women and Girls:  Rights.  Equality.  Empowerment.”  The United Nations website states<\/a>, \u201cCentral to this vision is empowering the next generation — youth, particularly young women and adolescent girls\u2014as catalysts for lasting change.\u201d  However, gendercide \u2013 the most violent form of gender discrimination \u2013 is not mentioned as a factor in disempowering\u201cthe next generation\u201d of women and girls, by selectively terminating them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As early as 1990, a Nobel Prize winning economist estimated that there were 100 million<\/a> women missing in the world at that time.  More recent estimates<\/a> rise to 160 million<\/a>, or as high<\/a> as 200 million<\/a> \u2013 a figure that rivals all the casualties of all the wars of the blood-soaked 20th<\/sup> century.  Truly, gendercide is the real war on women.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 is particularly pivotal, as it marks the 30th<\/sup> anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.  This Declaration, according to the UN website<\/a>, \u201cis the most progressive and widely endorsed blueprint for women\u2019s and girls\u2019 rights worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beijing Declaration contains the following language:<\/p>\n\n\n\n