Gendercide is Violence Against Women

An article published in the recent issue of Yes! Magazine presented the shocking statistic that one out of three women worldwide experience physical abuse.

This article focuses on Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues, and how she is using her story and the story of others to speak out in opposition to violence against women.

One group of women who are largely ignored by American feminists are the unborn– who are discriminated against before they are born, many times because they are females.

Recently, Rep. Chris Smith led congress in an attempt to pass a law that would outlaw gender based abortions in the U.S. The Prenatal Nondiscrimination act was opposed by President Barack Obama and was not passed by the House.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-real-war-on-women/2012/05/31/gJQAV9cQ5U_story.html

Where are people like Eve Ensler when it comes to fighting for the women in China who are forced to have abortions?

Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and Chai Ling of All Girls Allowed are two examples of women standing up for these women in China.

Where are the Enslers taking notice of the fact that 200 million females are missing from countries like China and India because of those countries’ preference for boys?

In these countries girls are often aborted, killed at birth, or abandoned shortly after birth.
In China this preference has led to sex selective abortions, infanticide and a lack of women for men to marry which has led to trafficking of young girls.

The recent documentary, “It’s a Girl” documents the deadly power of those three words by highlighting female infanticide, dowry death, female feticide/ sex selective abortion, China’s one child policy, forced abortion and forced sterilization, child trafficking, and abandonment.