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Author : Armen Oganesyan
Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs
DUTCH JOURNALIST Mara Hvistendahl
comes to the conclusion in her book Unnatural
Selection that mankind today is missing 160 mil-
lion women. Most of these missing females are
not victims of neglect. Choosing boys over girls
was a conscious choice that deprived girls of their
right to life in their mothers' wombs. They were
selected out of existence by ultrasound technol-
ogy and abortion.
On the whole, the West has been seriously accused of female genocide, much to the dis-
pleasure of many foreign bloggers. As is often the case, without reading the book them-
selves, they began making evaluations based on incorrectly formulated annotations.
Nevertheless, as America's International Herald Tribune, a more informed source than
bloggers, writes in an editorial, "Western governments and philanthropic institutions have
their fingerprints all over the story of the world's missing women. From the 1950s onward,
Asian countries that legalized and then promoted abortion did so with vocal, deep-pock-
eted American support."
American journalist Ross Douthat believes that "the American establishment helped create
the problem, but now it's metastasizing on its own: the population-control movement is a
shadow of its former self, yet sex selection has spread inexorably with access to abortion,
and sex ratios are out of balance from Central Asia to the Balkans to Asian-American
communities in the United States.
What is amazing is something else: neither the past nor the present of the "mad sanity"
Hvistendahl is sharing with the world have been evaluated from the perspective of inter-
national law. It is difficult not to agree with Ross Douthat who believes that further study
of the problem of the "missing 160 million women" raises the issue of some enormous
crime against humanity.
The thing is that contemporary ideology and methods of birth control coincide surprisingly
well with the policy Hitler pursued in the occupied territories. One of the documents of
the Nuremburg Trial states the following, "The press, radio, cinema, as well as brochures,
booklets, and lectures should be used to spread the idea among the Russian population
that it is disadvantageous to have several children. They should be shown how expensive
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One Hundred and Sixty Million Women Liquidated ... Without a
Single Shot Being Fired!