Disappearing Women

Article here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/31/IND91KEHAD.DTL

In my opinion, this is the result of rapidly advancing technology without the moral framework in place to deal with said technology.

At the risk of sounding chauvinistic, uncouth, and ultra-conservative, the world has an ethics problem when it comes to the sanctity of life--born and unborn. 

We live in a day and age defined by the relativization of truth.  Some believe all truth is relative, but that suggestion is a cop out and a refusal to deal with the reality of right and wrong.  If one says truth is relative, one is making a statement of truth which is automatically relativized.  It simply does not follow. 

Secondly, those who believe truth is relative, I believe, have no experience of evil.  If you have ever dealt with parents who have had their child kidnapped or murdered, you know evil exists.  Six million people dying at the hands of a madman and those who followed him prove evil exist.  If everything was relative, we could not make a moral judgment upon such issues.  Kidnapping a child, murdering a child, murdering another human being, taking that which does not belong to you, all such things are wrong.  Plain and simple.

Somewhere in the grand scheme of things, real truth does exist, and it demands a response and accountability from us as people. 

Oh, yeah, I know the argument: I probably would not be saying such things had I been raised in another form or fashion or culture which felt differently.  Granted.  I agree with such a statement.  But would that make such actions right?  If I were a part of a culture that practiced human sacrifice and was raised to believe such sacrifice was necessary, would that still make it right?  Only in my mind, but not in reality.

The selective act of aborting females to ensure a couple has a male child is wrong.  Morally, ethically, and otherwise, it's wrong. 

From a Christian standpoint, I cannot imagine Jesus condoning such behavior.  His teachings on children were revolutionary for their time.  Children then were considered property.  Their lives were meaningless to the vast majority of people.  They were expendable because unless they could contribute and work, they were simply one more mouth to feed--with resources that were already stretched thin.

But Jesus said, "Unless you accept the kingdom of heaven as you accept a little child..." 

(You can take that a couple of ways.  You can understand this to have a childlike faith, or you can understand it as literally accepting the kingdom of God as you would accept someone who was considered expendable.  Of course, I am accentuating the latter.)

Astounding the number of children who have been aborted in this piece for no other reason than they did not have a penis and a set of testicles. 

Hello, where is the moral outrage?

We've finally reached a point in history where most folks consider it an abomination that a person could be killed or discriminated against because of the color of his or her skin.  We have made massive headway in conferring equal rights because of gender.  But if the unborn is not the correct gender...

Does this make any sense what-so-ever?