The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and the Canadian Association of Radiologists are calling for a halt on using ultrasound for the sole purpose of determining the sex of a fetus. See story here. Stop using ultrasound to determine sex of fetuses, urge doctors, radiologists by Sharon Kirkey Published: February 19, 2014 Canada’s pregnancy […]
An estimated 200 million girls are missing. How can the world community stand by and allow gendercide to continue? asks the maker of a documentary film on this scandal. The United Nations estimates that as many as 200 million girls are missing today, the majority from India and China. What are the cultural patterns and […]
Conservative MP Mark Warawa’s Motion 408 is scheduled to be debated on April 15th 2013. The Motion is asking Parliament to condemn “discrimination against females, occurring through sex-selective pregnancy termination.”“ Last June, the CBC conducted a hidden-camera investigation that exposed a majority of “entertainment” ultrasound businesses willing to reveal a baby’s sex in the early stages of pregnancy, […]
Guest post by Ruth Lobo Shaw My biological mother was poor, alone, and 19-years-old when I was conceived. Being unmarried, she was likely ostracized from her family for being pregnant. Lucky for both of us, she found a convent that had an attachment for single mothers. She found help, support and a home there. We […]
What atrocity has ended the lives of more human beings than the genocide in Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, and the Nazi Holocaust? It is an atrocity many people have not heard of—an atrocity that has been dubbed a “gendercide”—the systematic killing of girls by feticide and infanticide—just because they are girls. So […]
In June 2012 the CBC revealed that ultrasounds were being used in Canada to identify the sex of a child before birth. While in many cases this might not be a problem, too many expectant parents, it seems, have used this technology to kill the child if she is found to be a girl. The […]
An article in the National Post reports on MP Mark Warawa’s press conference concerning Motion 408. We either condemn this or endorse this Warawa repeatedly told a press conference that his motion, and the online campaign he launched Wednesday to have Parliament approve the motion, was about condemning a practice that sees female fetuses […]
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