16/5/2011 The Borneo Post " 3,000 female fetuses aborted in Taiwan 2010"
This is a saddening news as the world marched into more civilised nation-so called. According to the report, The Bureau of Health Promotion in Taiwan recently launched an investigation after found out that 10 out of 11 babies delivered in New Taipei City last year were boys.
Nine out of every 10 babies delivered in Taipei City hospital during the same period of time were also male
Is that the current rising cost forces the couple to have less child?
Taiwan TFR* recorded as low as 0.94 last year.
Japan: 1.37
Singapore: 1.22
South Korea: 1.15
Hong Kong: 1.04 (source: NST 18.8.2010)
Thus, sex- selection become rampant as from my understanding, Chinese prefers son to daughter. Sons are most welcome in the family as their bear family surname, expected to take care elder, breadwinner of family, inherit family business and so on..
Daughters are view as fragile, and when she is married, she is considered others.
Sigh!! China's one child policy also forces many sex-selection abortion. Although the tiny life inside the womb cannot called a baby yet but they are life-living, breathing. Mummy knows that the first organ develop is the heart. In about 2-3 weeks pregnancy, mothers can hear the heatbeat already. Are we, mother really that heartless to kill the innocent.
*the number of child a women have in her life time
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