The UN has designated October 11th the ‘International Day of the Girl’ in an effort to stop discrimination against girls.
Unhappily, neither the UN nor the International Anglican Women’s Network have denounced the ultimate discrimination against girls: not allowing them to be born. Sex-selective abortions in the past three decades have killed 163 million girls, an inconvenient statistic studiously ignored by the International Anglican Women’s Network, an organisation which champions “reproductive health services”, including abortions. Of girls.
From here:
Today, 11 October, is the first ever ‘International Day of the Girl’. The Day has been designated by the United Nations in response to a growing acknowledgement that investing in girls, while overcoming discrimination against girls, releases their potential to flourish and to contribute to their communities and to the world.
‘Girls are three times more likely than boys to suffer from malnutrition and are more likely to be forced into early marriage’, said Coordinator of the International Anglican Women’s Network, Ann Skamp. ‘Around the world, the daily realities of poverty, discrimination and violence mean that one in three girls is prevented from receiving a secondary education. Only when obstacles such as these are dismantled will girls properly achieve their full potential. So it’s time to shatter stereotypes, advocate for and enable equality, and change girls’ lives.’
I tried to comment on the same story in the Anglican Journal. I simply asked if this was also to apply to girls killed while still in the womb. The comment was held for moderation, butnow I see there are no comments at all.
Timing and place of girls’ deaths is too controversial I guess.