Reddit reviews Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

There is an excellent book on sex selective abortion by Maria Hvistendahl called Unnatural Selection that covers this subject much more in depth. Everyone interested please read it or at least the Washington Post article about it. I would link if my phone would let me

Edit: I did watch the John Oliver episode but didn't feel he dived deep enough into the misogyny of it, especially as someone who has been invested in the genocide of female infants and the sex selective abortion issue for many years.

2nd edit: coming through with the links! Sorry for not formatting them

https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Consequences/dp/1610391519

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/mara-hvistendahls-unnatural-selection-about-a-world-with-too-many-men/2011/06/15/AGYB7AuH_story.html

Limited to one child, they aborted females fetuses, causing the current gender imbalance. Read about it here: https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Consequences/dp/1610391519

I don't think that's the point ami_anai was making, though- native Chinese women may be getting more attention and resources from their families, as they are the only child onto which to lavish such, but the skewed sex ratio means that women from other countries are being kidnapped and trafficked to make up the deficit. In other words, for certain women, that scarcity drives up their value only in monetary terms- they are objectified and sold or stolen.

Mara Hvistendahl's book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men talks about this (you can see bits and pieces here).

Thank you.

I would suggest one book that you might find interesting. Actually gets into the programs and highlights Asia, where there are now 160 million or so missing females.

https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Consequences/dp/1610391519

Do you have a link to the Agenda 21 info?

They drove an increase in abortions in Japan...for one year.

The more interesting fact is that up until the 50s or so, abortion wasn't really a viable method of birth control in Japan (Buddhism, obviously, isn't hip to the whole 'ending of life' thing) until introduced as a case study by American and global population concerns.

Check out "Unnatural Selection" for more.

http://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Hvistendahl-Mara/dp/1610391519