How Feminism, Gender Fluidity and Cultural Relativism Leaves the Most Vulnerable Females Defenceless
The brave new world in which we live makes it difficult to know how to react to research that suggested certain ethnic groups might be aborting girls because they prefer boys.
A Latrobe University study of more than a million births in Victoria found that, in key migrant communities, there were as many as 125 boys born for every 100 girls. This was a male birth rate 20% higher than if nature was left to take its course.
Lead researcher Dr Kristina Edvardsson said the results were evidence that “systematic discrimination against females starts in the womb”.
She wrote …
“We believe that some women may be terminating pregnancies after discovering they are expecting a girl.”
Feminists should be outraged. There can be no worse form of misogyny than using ultra sound technology to track down females and kill them before they have a chance to be born.
But don’t expect females in the womb to be defended by feminists in the Parliament.
The same women’s rights activists who were screaming “misogynist” at Tony Abbott when he dared to glance at his wrist watch while the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard was speaking will, themselves, not say a word to save the lives of their unborn sisters.
How can they?
If abortion is a matter of personal choice, as feminists insist, then the choice some ethnic women make to kill an unborn female for simply being female must be beyond criticism.
Feminists cannot very well yell at Catholic Nuns to “Keep your theology off my biology” whilst imposing their own ideology – non-discrimination against females – on those same pregnant women.
So feminists will continue to sacrifice their unborn sisters on the altar of “choice” in order to preserve women’s access to abortion so that more females can be targeted for termination by mothers wanting sons.
But then, who is to say that the females showing up on ultra sounds are, in fact, really female?
In our brave new world of gender fluidity, the females being aborted may in fact be males whose gender was wrongly assigned by a doctor, gung-ho on science and not nearly attentive enough to gender theory.
How could a doctor with an ultra sound, observing nothing more than genitals, possibly know if the baby in the womb - about to be aborted - is actually female?
If gender is a social construct, then no-one can be sure that the unborn baby, with a vagina and XX chromosomes, about to be aborted by an ethnic woman desperate for sons, is actually female.
But even if we were to believe that objective, scientific evidence available to doctors is still valid in determining gender, who are we to impose our Western cultural values on the ethnic communities we have welcomed here?
Dr Edvardsson said that the Indian Government estimated two million girls “go missing” from its population every year because of gender-selective abortion.
The custom of paying a dowry when a daughter marries means that giving birth to a girl is simply uneconomical. So the ancient dowry tradition has entrenched a modern day preference for male children, a preference she warns that migrants might bring with them.
Dr Edvardsson concluded that there was “evidence that prenatal sex selection may be taking place following migration to Australia”.
But who are we to criticize? Have we not agreed that the West – supposedly founded on genocide and the theft of land - is the last culture that should be lecturing others about what ought and ought not be done?
We will not talk about the targeted termination of unborn females within certain ethnic groups for the same reason that we will not talk about genital mutilation of born females in other ethnic groups. We haven’t the cultural confidence to say what is, or is not, acceptable.
So the Latrobe University research will be quietly filed away - even as unborn girls are quietly aborted for simply being girls - because abortion is sacrosanct, gender is fluid and Western values have been undermined to such an extent that we are no longer confident enough to articulate them, even in defense of defenseless females.
Another brilliantly discerning and incisive piece James, cutting asunder both the hypocrisy and insanity of Western society’s crumbling values. I can recall, not that many years ago, the horror and outrage in the West at sex selective abortions in China due to the state’s wicked one child policy. A practice that saw the birth rate of females to males plummet to the point where the state was forced to relax their policy to prevent their society from literally dying out. Of course it was rank hypocrisy then and still is from the West given our love for killing the unborn and the sacred right it has become, enshrined and protected by law, for any reason whatsoever a woman decides.
As for the deafening silence from feminists over this targeted infanticide of females in the womb, it is a clear indication that their loyalty to the cause of human sacrifice far outweighs their defence of all females and their most basic right to life. If they are unable to speak up on behalf of the most defenceless females to simply have the right to be born, it would appear their cause has no reason to exist. It was interesting though, that the researcher you quoted stated with such clarity that “systematic discrimination against females starts in the womb”. The ability to identify an unborn child as both a human being and a female does kind of put to rest the tired argument that the unborn are somehow non-human and devoid of gender.
Of course, given the West’s new found obsession with the malleability of gender, being simply a social construct as we are told, it does cast quite a different light on the idea of sex selective abortions. How DOES one know which gender is being targeted for destruction if one is simply assuming the baby’s gender in the first place. If is up to doctors to assign gender at birth, surely the unborn have no gender to speak of and thus no targeting could ever take place. It would appear the West is suffering from a crippling case of cognitive dissonance that allows people to say, in the one breath… “discriminating against unborn females is abhorrent, also, being female is a feeling… a vibe… and the unborn are not salient, nor cognitive and thus have no inherent right to life.” A train of thought that is held by many seemingly without an ounce of shame or self awareness.
Great work once again James, exposing just how desperately wicked the heart of man truly is. Something we know not just because the Word of God tells us in no uncertain terms, but because we see the evidence of it around us every day.
It’s all too terrible to think about, so most people will never think about it. Institutionalised evil … all quietly swept under the carpet. Thanks for lifting up the edge mate.