Conservative MEP says “Stop killing babies because they are girls”
Posted, April 02, 2008 @ 00:00
Conservative MEP says “Stop killing babies because they are girls”
Brussels, 2nd April -- Sex discrimination in abortions has cost the world 60 million women, says Nirj Deva MEP. The Conservative International Development Spokesman is launching a campaign today urging disclosure by the European Commission of the funding provided for abortions in the developing world.
The campaign is based on the UNFPA’s State of the World Population Report last year which reported a global deficit of 60 million women in the world –the same as the total population of the UK – and that these ‘missing’ females had been prenatally sex-selected, aborted, and infanticised. Ban ki-Moon, in his opening address to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women in New York, said: ‘Through the practice of prenatal sex selection, countless [women] are denied the right even to exist.’
Mr Deva said: “I am determined to expose the scandalous practice of gender selected abortion.
“I am demanding a gender analysis on every abortion funded by European taxpayers and for the European Parliament to be regularly informed of the results. To their shame the Socialists and other political Groups of the Left have so far failed to back my call for full transparency.
“Gender selected abortion is the most significant cause of injustice against women in the world today - removing the basic right to life. Our campaign in the European Parliament is for the EU to monitor the extent to which it is funding gender-selected abortions in the developing world. We are expecting ferocious opposition. Any readers who agree with us can email their much-needed moral support to nirj.deva@europarl.europa.eu.”