Forgetting (if possible) about the darkening complexion of "greater" Toronto and "greater" Vancouver, the answer is that sex-selective abortions are widely practised in both countries by parents who wish to have only boy babies. In other words, female fetuses are killed by the 1000s... in both countries... every year.
Although Canada has had no specific law against abortion since 1988, many couples of the Hindu persuasion prefer to cross the border to have their girl babies killed at "prenatal clinics" like Koala Labs or the Washington Center for Reproductive Health.
Like Planned Parenthood, the WCRH purports to be about family planning. For a while, they ran ads in Indo-Canadian newspapers headlined "Create the family you want: boy or girl". But the unstated sub-text was, and still is: If our technique doesn't work and it turns out you're going to have a girl, we'll kill it for you. No problem.
In "Indo-Canadian doctor decries abortion of female babies", Walt referred to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, which checked the male:female ratio of 767,000 Ontario births, compared with the mother's country of origin. For the first-borns, the ratio was normal: 105 boys to 100 girls. The ratio was the same for second births for mothers born in Canada. But for mothers born in India the ratio was 110:100. And for South Korea, 120:100! So it's not just the Indians.
For third births, the ratio, for Indo-Canadian mothers was even higher, 136:100. How could this be? Dr. Prabhar Jha, of the University of Bombay [Toronto, surely! Ed.] said it wasn't necessarily sex-selective abortion that was the cause of the abnormality. Possibly, he said, more women who are expecting a son immigrate to Canada!
The main author of the study, Dr. Joel Ray, admits it doesn't show why ratios are distorted, only that they are so. But data from censuses in both Canada and India show the same (or even greater) discrepancies in the sex ratios of second or third children in Indian and other Asian communities.
Which prompts Jonathan Kay, writing in Canada's National Post, to call for the drafting of a new law regulating, if not prohibiting abortions. Sex-selective abortions, he says, are seen in India and even China as crimes against humanity -- at least in theory. Why should Canada take a more permissive view? Click here to read "How shocking new sex-selection data could finally lead us to a Canadian abortion law".
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Indo-Canadian doctor decries abortion of female babies
You'd think, wouldn't you, that the killing of babies before birth, simply because they're girls, would be confined to heathen and atheistic cultures like those of India and China. Not so. Although the practice of aborting a fetus discovered by ultrasound tests to be female is not as widespread in Canada as in Asia, thousands of little girls are killed in the Great White North every year.
So says Dr. Rajendra Kale, interim editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Immigrants from India and China bring their cultural and religious preference for boys with them, it seems. So when a doctor tells them, following an ultrasound, that they're going to have a girl, their response is "Kill her!"
In today's editorial headed "It's a girl — could be a death sentence" Dr. Kale calls on Canadian doctors to try to halt sex-based abortion. He advocates withholding information about the sex of a child in the womb until 30 weeks' gestation to prevent "an unquestioned abortion" because parents prefer a boy.
Writes Dr. Kale, "Female feticide devalues women completely.... Many couples who have two daughters and no son selectively get rid of female fetuses until they can ensure that their third-born child is a boy."
He calls on the provincial colleges that regulate physicians to rule that health-care professionals should not reveal a baby's sex to any mother-to-be before the 30th week of pregnancy. "Doing so should be deemed contrary to good medical practice," he said. "Such clear direction from regulatory bodies would be the most important step toward curbing female feticide in Canada."
Dr. Kale went on to say, in an interview, said waiting to divulge the sex of the fetus until after the start of the third trimester would still give parents who want to know whether they are having a boy or a girl enough time to prepare their nursery or purchase appropriate clothing.
But the good doctor did not address the question of how to prevent parents bent on destroying female babies to go to American states, such as Maryland or Pennsylvania, where it's still possible to get late-term (or even last-minute) abortions with no questions asked from abortionists like Kermit Gosnell or other "good doctors" like Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley.
As long as abortion remains legal -- anywhere -- parents hell-bent on killing their children will find an abortionist to "help" them. Pray that God will welcome the little souls of the innocent millions who are killed every year, and give His justice to their murderers.
So says Dr. Rajendra Kale, interim editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Immigrants from India and China bring their cultural and religious preference for boys with them, it seems. So when a doctor tells them, following an ultrasound, that they're going to have a girl, their response is "Kill her!"
In today's editorial headed "It's a girl — could be a death sentence" Dr. Kale calls on Canadian doctors to try to halt sex-based abortion. He advocates withholding information about the sex of a child in the womb until 30 weeks' gestation to prevent "an unquestioned abortion" because parents prefer a boy.
Writes Dr. Kale, "Female feticide devalues women completely.... Many couples who have two daughters and no son selectively get rid of female fetuses until they can ensure that their third-born child is a boy."
He calls on the provincial colleges that regulate physicians to rule that health-care professionals should not reveal a baby's sex to any mother-to-be before the 30th week of pregnancy. "Doing so should be deemed contrary to good medical practice," he said. "Such clear direction from regulatory bodies would be the most important step toward curbing female feticide in Canada."
Dr. Kale went on to say, in an interview, said waiting to divulge the sex of the fetus until after the start of the third trimester would still give parents who want to know whether they are having a boy or a girl enough time to prepare their nursery or purchase appropriate clothing.
But the good doctor did not address the question of how to prevent parents bent on destroying female babies to go to American states, such as Maryland or Pennsylvania, where it's still possible to get late-term (or even last-minute) abortions with no questions asked from abortionists like Kermit Gosnell or other "good doctors" like Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley.
As long as abortion remains legal -- anywhere -- parents hell-bent on killing their children will find an abortionist to "help" them. Pray that God will welcome the little souls of the innocent millions who are killed every year, and give His justice to their murderers.
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