The vanishing girls of China
Friday, February 18, 2005 at 6:22PM ■"As Girls ëVanish,í Chinese City Battles Tide of Abortions," by Howard D. French, New York Times, 17 February 2005, p. A3.
I remember our first ultrasound with our oldest. Finding out she was a girl was fantastic, because a female hadnít been born in my family in more than three decades.
Alas, in too much of the world, but especially in China and India, the ultrasound is used to weed out unwanted girls.
Our Vonne Mei lives because somehow she escaped this technology or her parents or mother simply valued her too much to let that happen. Every adopting parent wants to believe itís the latter at work, but mostly itís the former.
The girls who really vanish are the ones who never see the light of day. Vonne Mei isnít ìlost,î but rather connected to a family whoís comparative advantage is that it knows the most essential truth about life: The world moves on a womanís hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops. The world moves on a womanís hips. The world moves and it jiggles and hops.
Itís the world of light, all right. Gotta open our eyes up!
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