I’ve been hearing about this for a couple of weeks but didn’t want to think about the horrific implications of this particular scientific discovery. You may have heard also–a simple home test can now tell expectant parents the sex of their baby when the pregnancy is only seven weeks along. Here’s the NY Times version of the story.
India and China are beginning to see the implications of selective sex selection now. There are many more live baby boy births recorded than baby girl births. In time, as the males in that demographic group with the imbalanced sex ratio grow to maturity and start looking for wives and find none available . . . well it makes me physically ill to start thinking about it. And we’re nearly there.
Society can actually survive if there are fewer men than women–our different biological abilities can bring balance back, as it has after devastating wars that decimated young manhood. But with fewer women, thus fewer babies, it is going to be increasingly difficult to re-stabilize the male-female ratio.
One step forward, hundreds of steps back. Angels are weeping over this one.
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