Murder in China

Terrifying, horrifying and heart breaking is the latest news from China.  In a recent report, China admitted that the exact number of abortions cannot accurately be reported.  What China did report was 13 million abortions performed every year in hospitals.  These horrifying statistics do not account for the many more known to be carried out in unregulated rural clinics and the 10 million abortion pills (RU 486) sold every year in China.

The report said 62% of the women undergoing abortions were single and aged 20 to 29.  The report further said the widespread use of abortion was an unfortunate situation.  I would translate that as collateral damage.  

The response by some Chinese officials was that sex education needed to be improved. Its family planning controls, including contraception, sterilization and abortion procedures have prevented another 400 million births.  China's population is 1.3 billion people.  Compare this with the U.S. which has 300 million people and 1.2 million women having abortions each year.  

Remember China has a strict mandated and tightly controlled one child policy.  This policy was recently rescinded in a small geographical area that suffered a major earthquake which killed mostly children, leaving parents with no offspring.

A thought to ponder -  What is happening in China has monumental geo-political consequences because most of the babies aborted are female.  Why?  Chinese parents place a greater value on the male.  What does this lead to geo-politically? - a male dominated society, a militaristic society, a lawless society.