http://equalwrites.org/2009/03/13/girls-gone-missing/ Feminism and Gender Issues at Princeton University Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://equalwrites.org/2009/03/13/girls-gone-missing/#comment-3608 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:30:54 +0000 http://equalwrites.org/2009/03/13/girls-gone-missing#comment-3608 [...] for sons — has led, over the past three decades of the family planning policy, to an extreme gender imbalance. In April of 2009, the British Medical Journal concluded that as of 2005, in China “males [...]

]]> http://equalwrites.org/2009/03/13/girls-gone-missing/#comment-469 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:19:00 +0000 http://equalwrites.org/2009/03/13/girls-gone-missing#comment-469 “And if you have a daughter, love her.”Yes, Laura. With all my heart. Long before she was born, long before I knew whether she was a girl or a boy, I loved her. Maybe even before she was conceived (OK, that’s a stretch… but I always knew I *would* love her). I can’t even begin to imagine the heartlessness of a parent who would kill an infant for any reason. And I know this is going to sound like pro-life propaganda to some people, but I honestly can’t imagine looking at an ultrasound image and then deciding that this person, my own child, does not deserve to live. I honestly don’t see how that is any less heartless than killing an infant.

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