Episode 22: Global Gendercide: Approximately 500 Million Girls are Missing from the Planet

Last week a report from Northern India revealed that out of 216 births in a specific district, none were girls. Clearly, though sex-selective abortion is illegal there, it is still common. There’s a global war on women taking place and it’s not just in India. China alone is responsible for over 400 million girls missing from the planet (more girls were not allowed to be born in China over the last 50 years than there are people in the United States!). How different our world would be if these baby girls had been allowed to live. On this episode we take a look at the deadliest war of the past century—the war on women.

The following resources were helpful in creating this episode:

It’s a Girl Movie

PROBE LAUNCHED AFTER NOT A SINGLE GIRL AMONG 216 BABIES BORN IN INDIAN DISTRICT - Newsweek

India probes as no girl is born in three months in 132 villages - Al Jazeera

Invisible Girl Project

Podcast: The Invisible Girls of India - An Interview with Jill McElya

BreakPoint: The Scourge of Sex-Selection Abortion

Activists go undercover to expose India's illegal sex-selective abortions - CNN