Part of today's email from Consistent Life .
New Documentary on Gendercide
“It’s a Girl:
The Three Deadliest Words in the World” is the title of a new
documentary, and it’s not much of an exaggeration. The United Nations
estimate is now that there are over 200 million “missing” females in the
world due to feticide, infanticide, and abandonment of babies solely
because of their gender.
Rodney Stark
Discovering God, (HarperCollins, 2007), p. 320-21
He is discussing the Roman Empire.
“The advantages of Christian females began at birth. Infanticide
was widely practiced by Greco-Romans, and it was especially female
infants who were dispatched. A study of inscriptions at Delphi made it
possible to reconstruct six hundred families. Of these, only six had
raised more than one daughter. As would be expected, the bias against
female infants showed up dramatically in the sex ratios of the imperial
population. It is estimated that there were 131 males per 100 females in
the city of Rome, and 140 males per 100 females elsewhere in the
Empire.”
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