gendercide

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Sex-selected abortion, or "gendercide," as some feminist critics call it, is a practice whereby parents choose to terminate a pregnancy because the unborn child is not of the desired sex.

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  • Sex-selected abortion, or "gendercide," as some feminist critics call it, is a practice whereby parents choose to terminate a pregnancy because the unborn child is not of the desired sex. —  Spero News
  • Instead, their news are about gender violence, extreme poverty, lack of opportunities, malnutrition, high mortality rates even gendercide.
  • These are all politically correct topics, even in China, and ignore the way the one-child policy has pushed traditional son-preference to the extreme of "gendercide". —  MercatorNet
  • Ostensibly it's a novel, but I think it's better described as other things, a series of Holocaust testimonies from the survivors of gendercide, perhaps, —  Tales from the Reading Room
  • "In a shocking display of pandering, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear in Beijing, that the Obama Administration has chosen to peddle U.S. debt to the largest dictatorship in the world over combating torture, forced abortion, forced labor, religious persecution, human sex trafficking, gendercide, and genocide," Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a U.S. —  The Christian Post RSS Feed
 

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