Gospel Prism

Abortion on demand based on convenience is a terrible notion. I know much of the world does not believe this to be the case, but it is. Not only do we know from Psalm 139 that it is God Himself who knits together babies in their mother’s womb, but we also know that the implications of such acts will have far-reaching effects.

Well, here is an instance where abortion on demand (a choice-centered abortion) leads to the choice of death for a baby girl and life for a baby boy. Al Mohler quotes The Daily Mail as stating 10 million! baby girls have been aborted in India in the last 20 years. Again, we are not talking about 10 million babies, but baby girls. Talk about gender selection, this is ludicrous. Will the feminists argue that baby girls can be aborted so that more boys can be born, eventually leading to a wiping out of not the feminist argument, but feminists themselves? This is no different than China’s “one child policy.� In China this has created a terrible conundrum where parents are aborting all girls as well, since they can only have one child. And now there is a glut of men and not enough women, which will obviously lead to sociological consequences in the future.

The Daily Mail writes:

This woman is by no means alone in taking such shocking and drastic measures to avoid giving birth to a girl. In fact, such is the widespread determination to produce only sons that, since ultrasound scans became widely available in the Eighties, the number of abortions carried out on female fetuses in India has risen at a terrifying pace.

Even by the most conservative estimates, sex-selective abortion in India now accounts for the termination of some ten million female fetuses over the past 20 years. That means that each year a staggering half a million girls have been prevented from being born.

Al Mohler responds:

It won’t stop until we recognize elective abortion for what it is – murder in the womb. Just ask India’s missing daughters. Where is the feminist outrage?

It’s no where to be found, Al. And for that, they are shooting themselves in the foot.