Sad news, on this Feast of the Immaculate Conception: a recent study shows the trend towards sex-selected abortions of girls increasing.

Eberstadt said that even now there are 20 million “missing” baby girls in Asia alone, that sex-selected abortions have permanently skewed the demographic balance of China and are in the process of skewing the demographic balance of India. He also showed the way that the trend has crept into Eastern Europe and Latin America, and that almost every African state is showing signs of vulnerability to the phenomenon.

(From C-Fam's Dec. 8, 2006 Friday Fax)