That's the term that is used when abortion is used for the sole purpose of killing girls (gender selection) as opposed to killing any child with which the woman is pregnant. The latter is simply called feticide.
It's an interesting term. Don't you think?
I fail to see how it is any different than genocide. Only that the victims are younger and more defenceless with no legal representation or protection.
It does lead to some questions:
. Do we have names for those thousands and thousands of children who are aborted because they have Down's Syndrome, cleft palate or in some other way look different than most of us?
. What would we call it if we witnessed a man (abortionists are almost always men) tearing a six month old baby limb from limb until dead because she had a deformed leg, a wonky eye, a poorly performing heart or a short life expectancy? What would we call that?
. What would we call it if we witnessed a man killing a two month old baby because she had Down's Syndrome?
. What would we call it if we saw a man killing a girl who is thirty seconds old because he liked boys more?
. What would we call it if we saw a man online, killing someone and then dismembering that person's body? How about if it's in the doctor's office and he's doing it at the request of the mother? How about if he's sucking out the baby's brain because the mother changed her mind about having another child?
And that is why the term female feticide so interesting.
. The outrage is not because a human life is being destroyed.
. Any grief expressed is not on behalf of the baby being killed.
. Any law against killing the female child is not because a child's life is being terminated with malice aforethought.
No, the anger of female feticide is on behalf of the woman who didn't want the baby girl destroyed. If she did want to kill the baby, and millions of females are killed through “normal” abortion every year, then all would be well.
. In our schizophrenic society, killing the child because of genetic mutation or physical deformity is fine and dandy.
. In our schizophrenic society, killing the child because it isn't wanted is fine and dandy.
. For some reason we have decided that it's not fine and dandy because of gender selection.
What kind of person tells someone, “I'm going to kill you, I'm going to deny you life because you won't look like I think you should”?
Feticide. Accepted practice as long as you do it for socially accepted reasons.
