This has implications for the future. Jill Stanek has written on this. Her column has links to several articles, including one on the rise of women who because of hunger escape from North Korea to China and are caught up in sex trafficking:

The pandemic of sex trafficking can almost entirely be blamed on sex selection abortions and infanticide. The United Nations Population Fund recently reported there are 60 million missing girls in Asia, roughly the population of the entire country of Thailand.

She has a link to an ADP item that says this:

Selective abortion in favour of males has left China with 32 million more boys than girls, creating an imbalance that will endure for decades, an investigation released Friday warned.

The probe provides ammunition for those experts who predict China’s obsession with a male heir will sow a bitter fruit as men facing a life of bachelorhood fight for a bride…

INC on May 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM

In another column, “The return of patriarchy,” thanks to abortion, she links to this from Mark Steyn last year. (My emphasis).

A similar pattern seems to be emerging among Chinese, Korean and Indian communities in America. “The sex of a firstborn child in these families conformed to the natural pattern of 1.05 boys to every girl, a pattern that continued for other children when the firstborn was a boy,” wrote Colleen Carroll Campbell, of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former Bush speechwriter, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the other day. “But if the firstborn child was a girl, the likelihood of a boy coming next was considerably higher than normal at 1.17-to-1. After two girls, the probability of a boy’s birth rose to a decidedly unnatural 1.51-to-1.”

By midcentury, when today’s millions of surplus boys will be entering middle age, India and China are expected to account for a combined 50 percent of global GDP. On present trends, they will be the most male-heavy societies that have ever existed.

As I wrote in my book “America Alone,” unless China’s planning on becoming the first gay superpower since Sparta, what’s going to happen to all those excess men? As a general rule, large numbers of excitable lads who can’t get any action are not a recipe for societal stability. Unless the Japanese have invented amazingly lifelike sex robots by then (think Austin Powers’ “fembots”), we’re likely to be in a planetwide rape epidemic and a world of globalized, industrial-scale sex slavery.

INC on May 13, 2009 at 1:09 PM

From the NYT no less! April 10, 2009. (My emphasis):

Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million

For the next 20 years, China will have increasingly more men than women of reproductive age, according to the paper, which was published online by the British Medical Journal. “Nothing can be done now to prevent this,” the researchers said…

They attributed the imbalance almost entirely to couples’ decisions to abort female fetuses.

The trend toward more male than female children intensified steadily after 1986, they said, as ultrasound tests and abortion became more available. “Sex-selective abortion accounts for almost all the excess males,” the paper said…

The Chinese government is openly concerned “about the consequences of large numbers of excess men for social stability and security,” the researchers said.

But “although some imaginative and extreme solutions have been suggested,” they wrote, China will have too many men for a generation to come.

They said enforcing the ban against sex-selective abortions could normalize the sex ratio in the future.

If ever there was a case of reaping what you sow, this is it.

INC on May 13, 2009 at 1:11 PM

You know what else would psychologically screw up young women? Having to carry her rapist’s child to term. Or being forced to sacrifice her life or suffer some permanent disability as a result of her pregnancy. Unless pro-lifers deal with rape and health exceptions for abortions, they’ll never get anywhere.

RightOFLeft on May 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM

Abortion’s House of Cards

The Elliot Institute recently released research that shows not only is abortion unwanted by these victims, it hinders rather than helps them to recover. The Institute gathered testimony over a nine-year period from 192 women who became pregnant as a result of rape or incest, as well as from 55 children conceived in these ways…

The Elliot Institute found 73 percent of rape victims chose to give birth to their babies. In 1981, Dr. Sandra Mahkorn conducted the only previous major research of pregnant rape victims. Similarly, she found 75 to 85 percent of rape victims chose life…

The research shows that nearly all the women who ended the pregnancy with abortion regretted that decision. Conversely, those who gave birth to their child were all happy they did. “I thank God for the strength He gave me to go through the bad times and for all the joy in the good times,” said Mary Murray, who gave birth to a child conceived in rape. “I will never regret that I chose to give life to my daughter.”

… “The evidence shows abortion increases traumatization and risk of suicide,” says Reardon, an expert on post-abortion issues. “But childbirth reduces these risks.”

The book reports that “even researchers who support abortion-on-demand have confirmed that sexual assault is a ‘predictor’ of post-abortion trauma.” Indeed, the very experience of abortion, physically and emotionally, is similar to rape. However, the woman feels more responsible for the abortion, even if she agrees to it under pressure.

Pregnant incest victims are often young girls, frequently unaware they are pregnant. This especially sets them up for “retraumatization,” Reardon says. Years later, they realize what happened and are vulnerable to more psychological problems.

INC on May 13, 2009 at 1:21 PM