This is called missing the forest for the trees.

“Nothing like this has happened before in human history,” the Washington Post recently proclaimed: “too many men.”

“Men outnumber women by 70 million in China and India,” and it’s a societal catastrophe. Loneliness, imbalanced labor markets, increases in violent crime, trafficking, and prostitution. The consequences reach into Asia and distort the economies of Europe and the Americas.

The Post says the cause of the gender imbalance is “a combination of cultural preferences, government decree and modern medical technology.”

No. The real culprit, which the 5,300-word article only mentions once: gender-selective abortion.

The problem isn’t too many men. It’s that unborn women are the victims of Chinese government policy and Indian cultural norms.

Changing the bias against girls will require a culture-wide change. But outlawing sex-selection abortion can happen tomorrow. Unfortunately, western pressure is neutered by our own addiction to abortion.

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