The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World (44 page)

11
Quoted by the Anti-Defamation League in “ADL Investigation Reveals Strain of Anti-Semitism in Extreme Factions of the Anti-Abortion Movement,” press release, October 30, 1998.

12
Marx,
Confessions of a Prolife Missionary
, p. 269.

13
Ibid., p. 136.

14
Jennifer Gonnerman, “The Terrorist Campaign Against Abortion,”
Village Voice,
November 3-9, 1998.

15
“HLI’s Population Group Gains Financial Independence,” Human Life International press release, July 5, 2000.

16
Jay Mathews, “Stanford Expels Student Faulted on China Study,”
Washington Post,
February 25, 1983.

17
Fox Butterfield, “Secrecy in a Dismissal by Stanford Fuels Academic Freedom Dispute,”
New York Times,
June 7, 1983.

18
Steven Mosher, “United in Opposing People,” Population Research Institute Weekly Briefing, November 14, 2000.

19
Steven Mosher, “Ten Great Reasons to Have Another Child,” Population Research Institute Weekly Briefing, July 2, 2001.

20
Catholics for a Free Choice,
Bad Faith at the UN: Drawing Back the Curtain on the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
, report, 2001.

21
Ibid.

22
Ibid.

23
Jennifer S. Butler,
Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized
(Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2006), pp. 105- 6.

24
Susan Whitney and Jennifer Toomer, “Family Advocates Find Common Thread—Hope,”
Deseret News,
March 25, 1997.

25
Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Health Official: Western Sexuality Ruining Africa; Western Ideas About Sex Hurt Africa,”
Salt Lake Tribune,
November 16, 1999.

26
Butler,
Born Again
, pp. 1-2.

27
Ibid., p. 2.

28
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, “Disillusion in Women’s Politics Five Years After Beijing,” June 4, 2000.

29
Ruse, “UN Pro-life Lobbying.”

30
Desikan Thirunarayanapuram, “Envoys to Probe Use of U.S. Funds for Forced Abortions,”
Washington Times,
May 12, 2002.

31
Ibid.

32
Michelle Goldberg, “A $34 Million ‘Political Payoff,’”
Salon.com
, July 23, 2002.

33
Ibid.

34
Michael M. Phillips and Matt Moffett, “Brazil Refuses U.S. AIDS Funds, Rejects Conditions,”
Wall Street Journal,
May 2, 2005.

35
Michelle Goldberg, “A Disastrous Appointment,”
Salon.com
, January 5, 2006.

36
Susan A. Cohen, “The Global Contraceptive Shortfall: U.S. Contributions and U.S. Hindrances,”
Guttmacher Policy Review
, vol. 9, no. 2 (Spring 2006).

37
Access Denied: The Impact of the Global Gag Rule in Kenya, 2006 Update,
collaborative report by International Planned Parenthood Federation, Ipas, Population Action International, Pathfinder, EngenderHealth, and Planned Parenthood; Marion Edmunds, “A Bitter Political Pill,”
The Guardian
, September 28, 2004.

38
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Health, “Technical and Procedural Guidelines for Safe Abortion Services in Ethiopia” (June 2006).

39
James Dao, “Over U.S. Protest, Asian Group Approves Family Planning Goals,”
New York Times
, December 18, 2002; Vijay Joshi, “U.S. Loses Vote at Population Conference,” Associated Press, December 17, 2002.

40
Marwaan Macan-Markar, “Population: Asians Rebuff U.S. at Population Parley,” Inter Press Service, December 18, 2002.

41
Ibid.

42
Brian Whitaker, “Fundamental Union,”
The Guardian
, January 25, 2005.

43
See
www.yearofthefamily.org/Doha.htm
.

44
Colum Lynch, “Islamic Bloc, Christian Right Team Up to Lobby U.N.,”
Washington Post
, June 17, 2002.

45
Sarah Boseley, “Britain Comes to Aid of UN Family Planning Agency Snubbed by Bush,”
The Guardian
, March 5, 2004.

46
Joyce Mulama, “A New Report Fires Up the Abortion Debate,” Inter Press Service, May 7, 2004.

47
“Ngilu: Hospitals to Get Abortion Kits,”
East African Standard,
May 7, 2004.

48
BBC Monitoring Service, “Kenya: Shock After 15 Foetuses Are Dumped in Nairobi Estate.” Excerpt from report by Kenyan Nation TV, May 26, 2004; Shelley Page, “Birth of a Crisis,”
Ottawa Citizen,
October 23, 2004.

49
“Horror of Killed Babies,”
East African Standard
, May 27, 2004.

50
“Tears as the Babies in Bags Laid to Rest,”
The Nation,
June 4, 2004.

51
Ibid.

52
“Kenya: Dr. Nyamu’s Charge Was Improper,”
The Nation,
June 27, 2005.

53
Republic v. John Nyamu, Merion N Kibathi and Mercy K Mathai,
Republic of Kenya in the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi, Criminal Division. Criminal Case No. 81 of 2004, June 14, 2005.

54
“Dumped Babies Were Born Dead, Pathologist Tells Court,”
East African Standard,
April 19, 2005.

55
“Awori Roots for Safe Abortion,”
The Nation,
June 27, 2007

56
Address of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to the Holy See for the Traditional Exchange of New Year Greetings. January 8, 2007. Available at the Vatican’s Web site,
www.vatican.va
.

57
Dinesh D’Souza,
The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 279.

CHAPTER 7: MISSING GIRLS

1
Barbara D. Miller,
The Endangered Sex
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981), pp. 50-51.

2
Ibid., p. 58.

3
Christophe Z. Guilmoto, “Characteristics of Sex-Ratio Imbalance in India, and Future Scenarios,” United Nations Population Fund. Presented at the Fourth Asia Pacific Conference on Rep roductive and Sexual Health and Rights, Hyerabad, India, October 29-31, 2007.

4
United Nations Population Fund,
Missing: Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India,
November 2003.

5
Prabhat Jha, Rajesh Kumar, Priya Vasa, Neeraj Dhingra, Deva Thiruchelvam, and Rahim Moineddin, “Low Male-to-Female Sex Ratio of Children Born in India: National Survey of 1.1 Million Households,”
The Lancet,
vol. 367, iss. 9506 (January 21, 2006), pp. 211-18.

6
Sabu George, “Sex Selection/Determination in India: Contemporary Developments,”
Reproductive Health Matters,
vol. 10, no. 19,
Abortion: Women Decide
(special issue, May 2002), pp. 190-92.

7
Christophe Z. Guilmoto, “Sex-ratio Imbalance in Asia: Trends, Consequences and Policy Responses,” United Nations Population Fund. Available at the UNFPA Web site,
www.unfpa.org

8
“Vernacular Dailies Pulling NRIs Back Home for Sex Tests,”
Times of India,
August 19, 2007.

9
Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund, “Son-Biased Sex Ratios in the 2000 United States Census,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, March 31, 2008.

10
Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer,
Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 164- 67.

11
Missing: Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India.

12
Tulsi Patel, “The Mindset Behind Eliminating the Female Foetus,” in
Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender Society and New Reproductive Technology
, Tulsi Patel, ed. (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2007), p. 170.

13
Ibid., pp. 161- 62, 170-71.

14
“Dowry ‘Kills’ Her on 1st Anniversary,”
Times of India,
May 1, 2008.

15
“Sample Registration System Statistic Report 2005,” Office of the Registrar General, India.

16
Data available on the Kerala government Web site,
www.kerala.org
.

17
Ibid.

18
Ishwar C. Verma, Rose Joseph, Kusum Verma, Kamal Buckshee, and O. P. Ghai, “Prenatal Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders,”
Indian Pediatrics
(May 1975).

19
Forum Against Sex Determination and Sex Pre-selection, “Using Technology, Choosing Sex, the Campaign Against Sex Determination and the Question of Choice,”
Development Dialogue
, vol. 1, no. 2 (1992), pp. 91-102.

20
John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore, “Born Oppressed: Women in the Developing World Face Cradle-to-Grave Discrimination, Poverty,”
Washington Post,
February 14, 1993.

21
Guilmoto, “Characteristics of Sex-Ratio Imbalance in India.”

22
Ravi Duggal and Vimala Ramachandran, “The Abortion Assessment Project—India: Key Findings and Recommendations,”
Reproductive Health Matters
, vol. 12, no. 24, Supplement: Abortion Law, Policy, and Practice in Transition (November 2004), pp. 122-29.

23
Ibid.

24
“Punjab Village Cries for Unborn Girls,”
Times of India,
January 19, 2006.

25
According to the World Health Organization, a survey in the state of Madhya Pradesh showed that 49 percent of women thought abortion was illegal, and 36 percent did not know its legal status.
Unsafe Abortion: Global and Regional Estimates of the Incidence of Unsafe Abortion and Associated Mortality in 2003,
World Health Organization, 2007. Available at the WHO Web site,
www.who.int
.

26
Manisha Gupte, “Declining Sex Ratio, The Two Child Norm, and Women’s Status,” in
Coercion Versus Empowerment: Perspectives from the Peoples Tribunal on India’s Coercive Population Policies and Two-Child Norm
, Shruti Pandey, Abhijit Das, Shravanti Reddy, and Binamrata Rani, eds. (New Delhi: Human Rights Law Network, 2006), p. 55. See also, “Defeat Because Hindutva Agenda Abandoned: VHP,”
Times of India,
October 17, 2004.

27
Douglas A. Sylva, “The Lost Girls,”
Weekly Standard
, March 21, 2007.

28
Gita Aravamudan, “Who Killed the Girls?”
Deccan Herald,
August 5, 2007.

29
Guilmoto, “Sex-Ratio Imbalance in Asia.”

30
Scott J. South and Katherine Trent, “Sex Ratios and Women’s Roles: A Cross-National Analysis,”
American Journal of Sociology
, vol. 93, no. 5 (March 1988).

31
Hudson and den Boer,
Bare Branches,
p. 261.

32
Ibid., pp. 134-36.

33
Ibid., p. 140.

34
Ibid., pp. 208-11.

35
Woojin Chung and Monica Das Gupta, “Why Is Son Preference Declining in South Korea? The Role of Development and Public Policy, and the Implications for China and India,” Policy Research Working Paper, the World Bank Development Research Group, Human Development and Public Services Team (October 2007).

36
Ibid.

37
Ibid.

38
Ibid.

39
Ibid.

40
Times of India
, “Save the Girl Child, Says Manmohan Singh,” April 29, 2008.

41
Maria Cheng, “Next Test Tells Fetus Sex After 6 Weeks,” Associated Press, May 15, 2007; “Easy Availability of Gender ID Kits on Net a Threat: Minister,” Indo-Asian News Service, March 15, 2008.

CHAPTER 8: THE BIRTH STRIKE

1
“Europe’s Last Best Hope in the Battle for the Family.” Available at the World Congress of Families Web site,
www.worldcongress.org
.

2
Agnieszka Graff, “We Are (Not All) Homophobes: A Report from Poland,”
Feminist Studies
(Summer 2006); Nicholas Watt, “Polish Rightwingers Stoke Israeli Concern: Party Is Anti-Semitic, Diplomat Tells Warsaw; MEPs to Attend Gay March Amid Homophobia Claims,”
The Guardian,
June 5, 2006.

3
Judy Dempsey, “Letter from Europe: Shaping the Agenda of Poland’s Drift to the Far Right,”
International Herald Tribune,
July 26, 2007.

4
Casey Sanchez, “The Latvian Connection,”
Intelligence Report
(Fall 2007).

5
Quoted in Philip Jenkins,
God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 6.

6
Mark Steyn,
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2006), pp. 12, 108.

7
CIA,
The World Factbook,
available on the CIA Web site,
www.cia.gov
.

8
Peter McDonald, “Gender Equity, Social Institutions, and the Future of Fertility,”
Journal of Population Research
, vol. 17, no. 1 (May 2000).

9
Richard Jackson and Neil Howe,
The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century
(Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2008), p. 5.

10
Ibid.

11
Francis G. Castles, “The World Turned Upside Down: Below Replacement Fertility, Changing Preferences and Family-Friendly Public Policy in 21 OECD Countries,”
Journal of European Social Policy
, vol. 13, no. 3 (2003).

12
Frances Rosenbluth, Matthew Light, and Claudia Shrag, “The Politics of Low Fertility: Global Markets, Women’s Employment, and Birth Rates in Four Industrialized Countries,” Leitner Working Paper. Available at the Yale University Web site,
www.yale.edu
.