War against baby girls going global, expert tells United Nations
Dec 11, 2006
By Tom Strode
Baptist Press

WASHINGTON (BP)--The war against baby girls is not limited to certain localities but has developed into a global event, a specialist in demographics said recently at the United Nations.

Nicholas Eberstadt, a scholar at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, told U.N. delegates there is an increasing birth imbalance that favors males because of sex-selection abortions and prenatal technologies, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) reported Dec. 8. He described the development as a “Global War Against Baby Girls,” according to C-FAM.

The imbalance also is not based only on forced population control programs, Eberstadt said. His research shows the increase in “son preference” has several elements at its root: The expanding use of technologies that expedite sex selection in the womb; a decline in fertility, and a prevailing inclination toward boys. the rest