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Abortions by Sex Cause Vietnamese Boy Boom

- Vietnam is seeing a boom in male births as increasing numbers of parents opt for sex-specific abortions. In 2001, the sex ratio in Vietnam was close to the biological norm of 105 male births per 100 female births, but this reached 111 to 100 by 2007.... Read full article »
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    AnnOfMo... Britt May 16, 2009 20:15:11
    AnnOfMontana
    China has preferences. Last I heard the One Child rule doesn't apply if your first child is a girl and you're allowed to try for a male. But if it's a second daughter you're forced to abort. It's been a while since I've read up on it though.
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    Wrapper ~ Britt May 17, 2009 20:30:45
    Wrapper ~
    It's because of their birth control, their being over a billion Chinese in China, maybe even 1.5 billion. They limit it to one child a family there and they choose to have a male often for the family name.

    BUT... the indigenous groups there, the way we have Native Americans here, do get a bit of a break and maybe be able to have 2 and maybe more, that's to research.

    Chinese women are very beautiful too.
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    ♥Nicole~M♥ May 16, 2009 17:22:58
    ♥Nicole~M♥
    This is dangerous. What are these men going to do for a wife? There wont be enough women for men if they continue at this rate.
  • devonta... ♥Nicole~M♥ May 16, 2009 20:54:56
    devontae jones
    I'll bet my life there will be a correlation to an increase in mistreatment of women too. More rape, more prostitution, more sex slavery, more abuse.
  • andy devonta... May 17, 2009 10:19:55
    andy
    Already happening in China. Girls are stolen and sold on the black market for potential wives. Prostitution is prevalent throughout China now. Families are falling apart. They have taking the worst of the west and it is destroying their social structure. Meanwhile, we spend millions of American taxpayers dollars studying the affect that alcohol has on Chinese prostitutes.
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    Ginjo May 16, 2009 16:58:09
    Ginjo
    Genocide...
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    Medic_25 May 16, 2009 16:50:59
    Medic_25
    It's just plain crazy.
    Nuff said
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    belle May 16, 2009 16:35:49 (edited)
    belle
    This is actually going to benefit women. They will have more men to choose from and they can be very choosy on the one that pick for their spouse. At least something good to come out of something so silly.
  • Rotewwdlo belle May 16, 2009 19:10:30
    Rotewwdlo
    Yeah, until we run out of female humans altogther.
  • belle Rotewwdlo May 16, 2009 19:14:27
    belle
    Gotta be some or the males will not be around either. Quess it can work both ways, for them and against them.
  • ki§icys... belle May 16, 2009 21:29:41 (edited)
    ki§icysun  Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
    Well, in that situation, it's usually the men who get to decide who to marry..the woman don't really have much say.
  • belle ki§icys... May 16, 2009 21:40:03
    belle
    that is why I said it can work both ways.
  • JDLogan belle May 17, 2009 00:49:40
    JDLogan
    Having more men than women would be a benefit to women in the USA, and a few other countries, but I can see it being a real problem for women in rural Vietnam and China.
  • andy belle May 17, 2009 10:21:08
    andy
    You are a fool. Increase abortion on girls leads to abuse of girls and women. Only a true feminist would argue that aborting girls benefits that gender.
  • belle andy May 17, 2009 14:08:38 (edited)
    belle
    I NEVER agreed about aborting girls, I didn't write the post or put it into law about it being okay to pick a sex. I only commented about the possible results. If they are going to do something so stupid, than you gotta find something positive about this silly belief. So you must think it is okay to have just male children, true maie chauvinist pig.
  • Jezebel May 16, 2009 15:55:37
    Jezebel
    I guess now they'll have to start aborting the boys to even it out.

    This is pretty sexist. It is also important to note that many of these women are forced into the abortions.
  • Kate May 16, 2009 15:41:49
    Kate
    Haha...wtf do you think will happen in a couple of years because of this?? There will be a small amount of women left so all the guys will turn gay because they don't have choice!! HAHA I will laugh my head off at the mothers who were stupid and selfish enough to get an abortion because of the sex.

    LOL
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    bent the sewer surfer May 16, 2009 06:33:37
    bent the sewer surfer
    moderated...
  • The Simmering Frog May 16, 2009 06:25:11
    The Simmering Frog




    And now a few words from our radical feminist friends on this outrage against women!
  • Jezebel The Sim... May 16, 2009 15:57:08
    Jezebel
    Um, what feminist blogs have you been reading? Because there has been much talk about this sexism. But you just like to keep your foot shoved in your mouth, don't ya?
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