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China: Sex-Selective Abortion Remains Rampant for Third Children – 133 Boys for Every 100 Girls Born: Report
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China released a startling statistic in its most recent annual report: “Data published this past year showed on average, boy-preference for couples having a third child, with 133 boys born for every 100 girls, across China.” 2024 CECC Report, pp 155. See also pp. 160 and 166. Such a vast gender imbalance cannot be achieved naturally. It can only be achieved through the sex-selective abortion of baby girls – through gendercide.
The report does not provide a statistic on how many third children are born in China each year. It is, therefore, not possible to determine how many female third children were selectively aborted because of their gender. The report does, however, state that in 2023, there were an estimated 30 million more males living in China than females. This gender imbalance in turn is a powerful, driving force behind human trafficking and sexual slavery, in China and the surrounding countries.
The confluence of four factors has resulted in the selective abortion of 30 million baby girls: son-preference; coercive low birth limits (under the one, two and three-child policies); the availability of ultrasound to determine the sex of a fetus; and easy access to abortion.
March 8 marks International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is "For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment." The United Nations website states, “Central to this vision is empowering the next generation -- youth, particularly young women and adolescent girls—as catalysts for lasting change.” However, gendercide – the most violent form of gender discrimination – is not mentioned as a factor in disempowering “the next generation” of women and girls, by selectively terminating them.
As early as 1990, a Nobel Prize winning economist estimated that there were 100 million women missing in the world at that time. More recent estimates rise to 160 million, or as high as 200 million – a figure that rivals all the casualties of all the wars of the blood-soaked 20th century. Truly, gendercide is the real war on women.
2025 is particularly pivotal, as it marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This Declaration, according to the UN website, “is the most progressive and widely endorsed blueprint for women’s and girls’ rights worldwide.”
The Beijing Declaration contains the following language:
- [Paragraph] 115. Acts of violence against women also include forced sterilization and forced abortion, coercive/forced use of contraceptives, female infanticide and prenatal sex selection.
Today in China, pre-natal sex selection is widely practiced; unmarried women and fourth children can still be forcibly aborted; and forced abortion and sterilization are still likely used to control disfavored minorities such as ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs. According to the Beijing Declaration – which China signed, as the host country – these are “acts of violence against women.”
And yet, during the past 30 years – indeed, since the inception of the One Child Policy in 1980 -- the women of China have been brutalized by the Chinese Communist Party. Neither the Beijing Declaration nor International Women’s Day has done anything to stop this.
Any restriction on births is a violation of women’s rights, and we call upon the Chinese Communist Party to end all coercive population control, including in Tibet and Xinjiang.
We also call upon the CCP to take effective action to save baby girls. It can be done. We know this because Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is doing it. We are the only organization with a network inside China that has saved hundreds of baby girls from sex-selective abortion, abandonment and extreme poverty. By lifting up the equal dignity of the girl child and providing emotional and financial support, son-preference can be abated, and millions of precious baby girls can be given the chance to draw breath on the face of this earth.
Learn more about our “Save a Girl” campaign in China HERE.
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Won’t you help us save more baby girls in China? We have saved hundreds of girls, and yet there are millions more who are being aborted or abandoned just because they are girls – or who are at-risk because of grinding poverty. Each one of these girls is infinitely precious. Please help us save them by donating to our “Save a Girl” Campaign.
For $25 per month, or $300 per year, our GirlSavers have helped WRWF save at-risk babies in China! These babies may not be alive, or they may have been “given away,” or not had enough to eat, if our undercover fieldworker had not found them and extended a helping hand to their mothers. We put our money where our mouth is, offering practical assistance to empower these mothers to keep their daughters.
We are the only organization in the world with boots on the ground saving baby girls and impoverished widows in China. Will you please help them?
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YES, I WANT TO HELP END GENDERCIDE AND FORCED ABORTION IN CHINA, AND TO STOP THE SPREAD OF CHINESE-STYLE SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE U.S. AND BEYOND! I ALSO WANT TO SAVE WIDOWS IN CHINA AND UGANDA!
Your donation enables Women's Rights Without Frontiers to continue to be a voice for the voiceless women and children of China, as well as a voice against the export of Chinese-style totalitarianism. Your donation also helps save widows in Uganda. These huge efforts come at a cost. We need your support. Please give as generously as you can. Every donation makes a difference!
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