Every year in March, the United Nations has a two-week Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) session on women's issues. The session usually concludes with an interminable debate about "reproductive rights", and this year's (the 51st) was no exception.Radical feminists subscribe to an overriding verity: abortion on demand is fundamental to "women's rights". However, feminists have been mugged by an unpleasant reality: the overwhelming number of abortions in the world are of female foetuses, victims of sex-selection abortions. So non-government organisation (NGO) feminists at the UN have come up with a new most estimable slogan: killing a "girl child" in the womb is "the most extreme form of violence against women".
Their remaining problem is how to reconcile the contradictory positions of calling for unrestricted abortion while deploring the abortion of female foetuses...
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