India’s sex-selective abortion holocaust astronomically eclipses COVID-19 fatalities, with up to 22 million female babies estimated to have been massacred in the last three decades, according to a new study in The Lancet.
Writing in the world’s most prestigious medical journal, seven Indian researchers posit “a total of between 13.5 million and 22.1 million missing female births from 1987 to 2016” due to sex-selective abortion — a consequence of “daughter aversion.”
India accounts for half of the world’s suppressed female births. The trend “conti-nues to increase” and “should be a cause for serious alarm,” the Lancet editorial noted.
“This ongoing slaughter of unborn baby girls dwarfs the number of recent COVID-19 deaths. It is a human tragedy of enormous proportions that will haunt India for generations,” social scientist Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI) told Church Militant.
“Since 1990, approximately 15.8 million women have gone ‘missing’ from annual birth cohorts,” a 2019 PRI report revealed. “We at PRI are confident that our number of 15.8 million missing girls in India is close to the mark,” Mosher said.
India conducted 12.7 million sex-selective abortions between 2000 and 2014, according to Mosher’s 65-page report, which lamented, “Since 2014, approximately 550,000 girls go ‘missing’ from the birth cohorts every year due to the practice of sex-selective abortion and other forms of prenatal sex selection.”
This ongoing slaughter of unborn baby girls dwarfs the number of recent COVID-19 deaths. It is a human tragedy of enormous proportions that will haunt India for genera-tions.
Among other factors for daughter aver-sion, religious groups like Hindus display a higher preference for sons, who are valued for carrying out funeral rites for their parents (as most Hindus believe that a son must fulfill this role).
PRI reported that Hindu women are, therefore, “significantly more likely than non-Hindu women to resort to abortion.” Church Militant asked statistician and mathematician Dr Will Jones to put the abortion versus COVID-19 fatality figures in global perspective.
“Around 1.8 million people died world-wide with COVID-19 in 2020, according to the official tally. Yet this is eclipsed by the number of unborn children whose lives are ended by abortion each year — an estimated 73.3 million in 2019,” Jones explained.