{"id":33081,"date":"2013-01-09T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/?guid=b162e1da7362a92e7598139d71e843fc"},"modified":"2015-08-31T01:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T01:44:44","slug":"abortion-abuse-and-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/abortion-abuse-and-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion, Abuse, and Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties>  <o:Template>Normal.dotm<\/o:Template>  <o:Revision>0<\/o:Revision>  <o:TotalTime>0<\/o:TotalTime>  <o:Pages>1<\/o:Pages>  <o:Words>180<\/o:Words>  <o:Characters>1030<\/o:Characters>  <o:Company>Parish Presbyterian Church<\/o:Company>  <o:Lines>8<\/o:Lines>  <o:Paragraphs>2<\/o:Paragraphs>  <o:CharactersWithSpaces>1264<\/o:CharactersWithSpaces>  <o:Version>12.0<\/o:Version> <\/o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>  <o:AllowPNG\/> <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:TrackMoves>false<\/w:TrackMoves>  <w:TrackFormatting\/>  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>  <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt<\/w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>  <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt<\/w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>   <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables\/>   <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx\/>  <\/w:Compatibility> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"276\"> <\/w:LatentStyles><\/xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:\"\";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin-top:0in;  mso-para-margin-right:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;  mso-para-margin-left:0in;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:\"Times New Roman\";  mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;  mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;  mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;  mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} <\/style><![endif]-->   <!--StartFragment--> <br \/><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-rYeAxrQbpg0\/UO2hLfFGHfI\/AAAAAAAAC_s\/qUELRHXd7Q8\/s1600\/GirlsIndia.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"263\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-rYeAxrQbpg0\/UO2hLfFGHfI\/AAAAAAAAC_s\/qUELRHXd7Q8\/s400\/GirlsIndia.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In the northern states of India where the gender ratio between men and women has been skewed by the illegal--but widespread--practice of sex-selection abortion, a looming crisis threatens the very fabric of the nation according to a startling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20938125\" >new report from the BBC<\/a>. <\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">According to that report, \"Tens of thousands of girls disappear in India every year--they are sold into prostitution, domestic slavery. The UN children's agency Unicef says it's a problem of '<span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">genocide proportions'<\/span>&nbsp;and that 50 million women are missing in India because of female abortion, feticide, and infanticide--the killing of baby girls.\"<\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">This is the heart wrenching backdrop to the story of widespread human rights cviolations, rape, and violence against women that has emerged from India in recent days.<\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Astonishingly, \"An estimated 25-50 million women in India are 'missing,' if you compare the proportion of women in the population with other countries. As well as infanticide and feticide, some girls die of neglect and abuse. And, rich and modern cities like Delhi, Chandigarh, and Ahmadabad show some of the worst child sex ratios.\"<\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">This is the unintended harvest of bitterness that has come from the global sowing Planned Parenthood\u2019s ideological bad seed.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>     In the northern states of India where the gender ratio between men and women has been skewed by the illegal&#8211;but widespread&#8211;practice of sex-selection abortion, a looming crisis threatens the very fabric of the nation according to a startling new &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,78],"tags":[373,892],"class_list":["post-33081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-life-and-sanctity-of-life","category-thequickandthedead","tag-abortion","tag-human-trafficking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34388,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33081\/revisions\/34388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}