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"China alone stands to have as many unmarried young men—“bare branches”, as they are known—as the entire population of young men in America. In any country rootless young males spell trouble; in Asian societies, where marriage and children are the recognised routes into society, single men are almost like outlaws. Crime rates, bride trafficking, sexual violence, even female suicide rates are all rising and will rise further as the lopsided generations reach their maturity (see article).

It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide.""Baby girls are thus victims of a malign combination of ancient prejudice and modern preferences for small families. Only one country has managed to change this pattern. In the 1990s South Korea had a sex ratio almost as skewed as China’s. Now, it is heading towards normality. It has achieved this not deliberately, but because the culture changed. Female education, anti-discrimination suits and equal-rights rulings made son preference seem old-fashioned and unnecessary. The forces of modernity first exacerbated prejudice—then overwhelmed it. "

"While it is true that the law requires submitting a detailed form to the Department of Health, the only information that is made public are annual reports with statistical tallies of the number of abortions performed under very broad categories, which presents a negligible to non-existent re-identification risk.

I’m not defending the law; that is outside my sphere of competence. There do appear to be other serious problems with it, outlined in a lawsuit aimed at stopping the law from going into effect. The text of this complaint, as Paul Ohm notes, does not raise the “public posting” claim. Besides, the wording of the law is very ambiguous, and I can certainly see why it might have been misinterpreted.

But I do want to lament the fact that bloggers and special interest groups can start a controversy based on a careless (or less often, deliberate) misunderstanding, and have it amplified by an emerging category of news "

"The reality of what Dr. Tiller did, however -- helping women in absolutely desperate circumstances, when almost no one else would -- is what led one woman who had to terminate a wanted pregnancy because of a terrible late-term diagnosis to call the doctor and staff at his Women's Health Center "our heaven when we were living in hell.""

Women who've had later-term abortions at the Wichita Women's Center tell their stories.

"for Juno, the clinic embodies what she is afraid people will see when they look at her--the set of implications and connotations evoked by the catchphrase "sexually active." Which, based on the way she reacts to the term, seems to her to indicate both sexual promiscuity and the kind of blase attitude about sex and its potential consequences that she chides her best friend for expressing when she first tells her the news. Although Juno often performs that kind of flippancy about her own pregnancy, just as she spends a lot of time denying that sex with Bleeker meant anything to her emotionally, it's fairly clear early on that this doesn't actually reflect her emotions. In other words, what the clinic represents to Juno is lack of commitment--a refusal to take her, her sexuality, and her pregnancy seriously. And for someone with Juno's adolescent intensity--for a kid with her personality at her age, everything that happens to her matters greatly, and every major decision has to be consi

"this law guarantees every woman a right to choose or refuse contraception or birth control and choose or refuse abortion."