Stop Sex-Selective Abortion
According to UN statistics, there are 100 million girls missing around the world. Where have they gone? Many of them are left on the sides of roads, drowned, maimed and thrown in trash bins. But even more of them have been aborted.
The reason? They were girls, not boys.
Sex-selective abortion, also colloquially known as “gendercide,” is a huge problem across Asia. A traditional preference for sons, combined with harsh population control measures, has led to the wholesale destruction of little girls. This destruction that has left places like China in demographic turmoil, as young men are beginning to outnumber young women by substantial margins. With immigration, the problem is also beginning to spread to the United States, as well.
PRI was one of the first groups to discover and raise awareness of this issue. We work with legislators to try to ban sex-selective abortion here in the United States. Our videos, press releases, and writings on the subject have helped to inform the public about the seriousness of this problem.
You can help by:
raising awareness in your own community about sex-selective abortion, and
continuing to support our efforts against this expanding problem.
See PRI's video on sex-selective abortion.
See PRI's coverage of the “Pre-Natal Non-Discrimination Act”.
Read PRI's article on the subject.
