Lawmakers Urged to Stop War Against Baby Girls

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Today in Washington, D.C. the House of Representatives will take up, under Suspension of the Rules, a bill to prohibit the use of abortion as a method of sex selection. Several pro-life groups have written lawmakers asking them to back the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act

The use of abortion as a means of sex selection is a major social problem in a number of Asian countries, including China and India. There are credible estimates that 160 million women and girls are missing from the world due to sex selection.

Writing in the Fall 2011 issue of The New Atlantis, political economist Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute observed, “In terms of its sheer toll in human numbers, sex-selective abortion has assumed a scale tantamount to a global war against baby girls.”

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Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.

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