Matthew Siletzky takes a look into the practice of forced abortions and sex discrimination. Statistical data can play a vital role in realizing the significance of some major issues in today s society. No Daughters Need Apply by Rick Weiss. The figures portrayed in his evaluation illustrate a discouraging quantity of female abortions in a number of countries around the world. The tradition of sex selection has been practiced for centuries, and is common in Asia.
Many people living there feel that having a firstborn male child is the only acceptable option.
The article points out that in Western countries the ratio of male to females is about 1 to 1, but in Asian countries it can get as high as 114 men to every 100 women. People need to start looking at the moral side of the issue rather than the religious and family customs facet. One of these is the judgment that male children are of more worth than females. This is morally wrong, and civilization should be working rigorously to eliminate this bias that some people embrace. It was not easy for Americans to express that their views on slavery were mistaken.