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is a film about women who had to abort their daughters. about men who could no longer find a wife. and about goals who were kidnapped because of out. and about desperate parents. almost 200000000 girls and women are missing globally today. how could it come to this and why do we know so little about us. here have a look. would you please read this please help. this. was. clumsy as

a province in southern china. comes in don't know who lives and our parents who are searching for their daughter. 3 year old punk shooting disappeared a month ago without a trace. at 1st nobody believed that something terrible could have occurred in this peaceful village where everyone knows each other. but the search for her has remained fruitless. last around me we looked for her for days. we searched every corner yet day and night the only 5 days and nights he said she was gone. all that remains for the parents of the memories and baby photos from happier times.

is she so small here. she was so cute so adorable. how could this happen. through all her. do you and knows a lot of despairing parents he works for a relief organization. through our china there are already 200000 volunteers searching for missing girls such as puncture ting. really or are kidnapping of little girls are not uncommon in china with the other day a son's marriage is expensive because the bride's family expect expensive and gauge

with gifts or political for this reason and parents have little girls kidnapped so they didn't raise the girls together with their son all and when they've reached adult hood they are married to one another so there are shelters all. there is a shortage of millions of women in the world's most populous country 135 boys alone for every 100 girls in some provinces in china. this is the result of an experiment that started decades ago on the other side of the world. in the usa after world war 2 it was the era of the economic miracle people in the west were doing better than ever before if not for the fear that their prosperity could soon come to an end. a big concern was constantly growing populations due to

medical advances especially and developing countries. affluent americans started a new movement together they wanted to curb the large numbers of children worldwide . most of them on men from well known scientists to the super rich like john d. rockefeller but. they were people with influence and connections to the highest levels of the american government. defamations still continue to exist today the ford foundation the rockefeller foundation the population council. they triggered a rising tide of fear of a population explosion that soon also spread to other countries and they formed the head of worldwide measures taken to decimate the population of the impoverished.

this is been examined by matthew connelly a historian at columbia university in new york he has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impact of a. population council saw its mandate not just to control the rate of population growth but also to address problems in the quality of population so they had an explicit mandate to try to do something about the growth of the fertility rates among people who they thought you know would eventually take over the world if something wasn't done to reduce fertility rates across the board but especially among people who they thought would be poor parents would have even more poor children. this way of thinking also too cold in american politics in 1966 u.s. president lyndon b. johnson attached conditions for receiving development aid one of them being the recipient countries must reduce their population. it was a time of drought and starvation and india. the

president spoke on the phone with his secretary of agriculture. put out a pointed out that all the people at the grove the bears let it cure out but if you want to. exhibit a want to know what we did. you wake up a pretty big would be. right on top of critic of what else we get out of. your typical. he stopped food deliveries until indian president in the year again the bag to the demands. accusations were made that the west had imperialist intentions with its population control projects. and apartments for population control was founded at the united nations in 1969 the un f.p.a. in ited nations population fund. through that's

a stance of neutral part of western governments channeled millions into population control in developing countries the major donors besides the united states sweden great britain germany and switzerland of. south korea was among the earliest testing grounds for population control. the country was devastated after the korean war at the same time there was a baby boom with the highest birth rates in the world the united states participated in the reconstruction from the very beginning population control was high on the agenda. these 4 korean women grew up in a village 200 kilometers from seoul and still remember the war and the time that followed. could it be years or the government said we should have

fewer children and that's why we stuck to it. we women had abortions we thought we were doing the right thing and we did it voluntarily. western countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units document show that that time was not health promotion. population council an american foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the korean ministry of health. these vehicles are given. to help improve living standards in korea through a vigorous attack on the problem of excessive population growth. instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children a citizen's duty they were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies. were.

mobile clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as 1956 because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. western family planners flooded the country. one of the pioneers was the american doctor sheldon cigar. he founded an apartment for reproductive medicine and one of the largest state hospitals in new delhi and trained indian medical students. although early versions of i.e. indians had fallen into disrepute in the west cigar smuggled them into india in 1964. he declared them as christmas decorations at customs and had them inserted into the uterus of women without the knowledge of the government. in

a letter he wrote. the present approach is to distribute the ones i have on hand to private gynecologists we are also inserting some in monkey you to write my feeling is that in the long run it may be faster to quietly accumulate evidence from these sources before trying to press for wider distribution in government family planning clinics i do not want to raise the question with health minister dr najjar if the answer is likely to be negative because we would very be in a precarious position if we pursue. human studies at all but it didn't take long for the indian government to give the green knight the united states agency for international development even sent non-sterile intrauterine device is to india. serious complications often arose sometimes with fatal consequences. despite this the family plan has increased the pressure and the indian government

cooperators basic quotas for sterilizations an i.u.d. insertion pain doctors and health workers premiums. poor an education women were the main targets the bait money in exchange for their fertility. so you have the system where people at every level or being it being given money money from the united states from the united nations from sweden from norway money to agree to start those ation or money to get other people to agree to sterilization even if in some cases that eventually bad rounding there are and trucking them to camps where they were sometimes sterilized under the most appalling circumstances. sheldon seagal visited one of these camps in 1916. he described it to his superior i spent sunday at a women's there realization camp and found it fascinating after the surgeon sows up

the abdomen the ladies get off the operating table by themselves and walk out of the operating theater. the situation in india spun out of control in 1975 the government of india again they forced 8000000 women and men to undergo sterilization. this dark chapter in indian history became known as the emergency period. the idea of population control what was so seductive to national leaders people like indira gandhi was the idea that they could achieve maturity in one generation and they could do it with crash programs even if you require taking some risks even if for some people were going to get hurt this was something that was going to make india a modern nation and was going to improve everyone's welfare in the long run what they didn't understand was that in many rural societies these children were their

parents' only source of security in old age and not only that but in poor societies even children in many cases are able to support themselves and help their parents even from a relatively young age. but there is another reason as to why people in asia have many children and want a son and so they continue to have children until they have been mailed ascendant. the family planets recognize this preference for sons as the key to solving the population problem. people at places like the population council or the ford foundation they realize that parents and poor societies in many cases prefer to have sons that what they began to think was if only they had some way of helping those parents determine whether the fetus was a female or male then they might along with abortion they might have a quicker way of reducing fertility rates. the head of the population council laid

down a clear course in 1967. men to research efforts leading to improve contraceptive technologies a practical methods of determining the sex of an unborn child so that parents could be assured of a son. in the early 1970 s. the time had finally come scientists developed a curry on it will have some playing on c.b.s. with this method a child sex could be identified before birth. abortion was forbidden in almost all developing countries sheldon cigar and his colleagues used their connections to the highest ranks of the u.s. government and with great success. henry kissinger was u.s. president gerald ford secretary of state at the time. in the 1974 document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive d.

population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. while women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters. the consequences are only present in india today. once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing . like 19 year olds and gina.

my mother an older sister died on 2 consecutive days i was 6 months old at the time . then my father contracted polio and my grandmother raised me. my father went out to beg and we lived off what he brought back. and told us about. that's how we 4 kids grew up. today he said you know lives with her brother shuttles family he is her protector and saved her life 3 years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. after seguin a vanished shamsul sold everything travel 2000 kilometers to new delhi and reported her disappearance to the aid organization of nobel laureate kai laughs.

that. some men offered my sister work she declined after that she disappeared she was able to get hold of her phone and call me when she wasn't being watched. she was crying and begged me to get her out of there. i went there and saw her. blood was coming out of her eyes and her face had been cut. coming from a lower caste shamsul was not able to accomplish anything on his own. the police turned him away several times. after pressure from the aid organization they finally went to the village wes again it was being held. in. the van. with. a woman claiming to be sitting as mother in or pulled out

a marriage certificate. the shortage of women is particularly extreme in the northern india state of how. parents desperately seek wives for their sons the village elder eventually explained what had happened to the jena. that a lot of young i thought it was only me bought we've paid 50 or 60000 rupees as a down payment. i can prove it not that i know i'm allergic to tell you just give us a go we're not leaving without. looking it's all legal you know that if you die out the mother and i married her in front of 11 witnesses. the truth finally came out when the residents turned the girl over to police the entire village and collected money to buy seguin after a number of branches. she was married to one man and abused as a sex slave by 7 others. this is one of the consequences of the severe lack of

women. said jean a is no exception human traffickers come in the slums looking for girls when they disappear hardly anyone goes looking for them the traffickers often equate and says all nighters. so jean is kidnapper still lives and have village. nobody blames him where she was labeled a whore and was forced to leave home. golson women like city not suffer the consequences of population policies introduced and expedited by western family plan as 50 years ago in india. pregnant woman thought that you could selectively kill you goods and when you boys so this was created by the so-called academic medical profession promoted by

a ford foundation and a lot of other in jews who tried to hold budget. i think it took 30 students per year and be a sea change. so in about 5 years there was a corpus for few 100 people who barely whether it's a boy or girl. gynecologist put in a beating was trained at the same hospital where sheldon's a gun carried out as for such. as a young student baby had a dramatic experience in the delivery room. the 1st night bent over into the hospital i saw. st cat in the hospital it might surprise you which is not unusual in a government hospital susie's stray dogs that go getting go what looked like a mass of flesh or something out running out of the liberal so i went inside asked people what happened so one of them said we have to get over the place and order

for you to deliver it. 67 month old peters was delivered in just under the bed of the feet of the living woman so they need i was told it is a project because of research going on somebody's writing it people in it and how to find order it's a boy or girl before but we're doing everything he says and if it's a good. was near what. prenatal sex or terminations was the biggest breakthrough in population control. this way girls were aborted on mars and birth rates were reduced to fold she were babies were being born and fewer girls that could later bear children. and. daughters are weeded out in china as well one and 5 boys presently born will later be able to find a wife mothers are worried they have

a times at countless marriage markets for their supper sons. and shanghai there is such a market every sunday in people's park. was it the us that i'm here for the 2nd time today i'm looking for the right girl for my son he. wouldn't do it many people have come up to me when we exchanged phone numbers and information. about how much the mothers will now ask their daughters if they're interested in my son. and there will talk on the phone. we parents help our children to establish contact lenses that city changes here. these are mothers who only have one son because they were pressured to only have one child this was the chinese strategy for population control. u.s. president richard nixon and secretary of state henry kissinger arrived in beijing

in 1900 detainees. it was a historic meeting with nazi don't discuss the balance of power and a mutual commitment to world peace. there is no reason for us to be on every. neither of us domination over the other. neither of us. to stretch out our hands. and read the world. but the americans were worried about the growth of chinese power and the spread of communism and the fact that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable. nixons was it opened the floodgates for west and found planets. the chinese government had a sympathetic ear for them. success

paying introduced the one child policy. millions were trained as lay health workers the so-called barefoot doctors. their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. in the way of it you feel family planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a 2nd child. they face draconian punishments. the government is graffiti on building for someone to warn people to turn the line you can beat it out you can kill it you just cannot give birth to it. in spite of media reports of for sterilization of oceans the west continued to

donate money to the chinese population program at 1st as only came from organizations like the ford foundation but in 1979 even the united nations population fund gave $50000000.00 to the chinese government. an employee of i p f one of the turn organizations sounded the alarm when. i think that in the not too distant future this will blow up into a major press story as it contains all the ingredients of sensationalism communism forced family planning murder of viable fetuses parallels with india etc and when it does blow up it's going to be very difficult to defend. but the warnings were not only ignored the u.n. population fund also presented china with an award for outstanding contributions regarding birth control who they choose to give it to it wasn't

a reproductive rights advocates you know it wasn't to people whose lives were risk because or trying to campaign to get people and especially women the right only control their own bodies it was just the opposite they decided to honor the leader of china's course of population control program a chinese general. you know who presided over the most egregious period in the entire history of the program and they chose to honor indira gandhi who was responsible for what until then was the worst population program of all the emergency period program in india. is the u.n. population fund facing up to this dark chapter of its past. but what is almost never discussed is the history of that program and how it is at an early stage the u.n. population fund was deeply involved in incredibly of course a program and if we can get the u.n. population fund to acknowledge that then how is it they're going to get people to

trust them to do the right thing now and in the future. why did the u.n. population fund financially support countries that forced people to be sterilized and have abortions. need to be very clear and i got up there here. that goes awards are given by the united nations and by states. actors it would be our data structures. at that time the united states was the most important member state contributing 40 percent of the budget. was the u.n. population fund simply the puppet of its benefactors. 40 years after these population policy supported by the west over 30000000 chinese men remain in voluntary bachelors because of the shortage of women. this is why millions of unemployed men from rural areas move to the cities.

activist in him visits the parents of punk shooting a little girl who disappears but he doesn't have good news there are still no trace of their 3 year old daughter. of. to. put it on until how am i doing. i don't know. his message as we never found blood anywhere i believe she is still alive. and i wait for signs of life every day i'm very worried. that. the girls are often abducted by someone from the village before the child reaches the past and who contracted to have her take him she will

have passed through many hands from the kidnapper to middle men from the village to the city and from there often to another province. with each transaction the price goes up. ultimately the product go costs roughly $8000.00 and for the buyers the deal always pays. off. of the outskirts of the. book as far as you know if the son doesn't like the bride after all or if the 2 don't make a good match then the parents can still marry the young girl off to another family of 8 so after all they raised her as their own daughter in a way block or a yellow jade at the high bride price is often agreed upon. for lump of a human for them avoided it's worth it either way. just with the legion of bees oscillating. statistics in india show the higher the

settlers of men the higher the crime right and the number of violent crimes against women. the indian government has since reacted and outlawed sex determination in the ne 996 and yet there has never been as many abortions of goes as today because with ultrasound technology sex determination has become cheap and safe. despite the ban it's only a question of money to find a doctor who is willing to break the law and reveal the gender of the unborn child . the middle class in india is growing and as expected educated indians want fewer children little has changed about the preference for sons especially in the upper class.

i mean show was 25 years old when she married a computer scientist. her father in law was a high ranking government employee. in india the bride must pay the groom's family a dowry. i mean she gave her in the was an apartment. having a son is like winning the lottery for some people in india. you know what. they wanted me to have a son one month if it had to be a boy. a son an heir for the clan book. i mean i was kept completely in the dark. and. they said come see the doctor so i did. i never knew what they had discussed with the doctor.

if it was a girl the doctor would say j matter dean the holy god s. . that was their code word. then they would know i was expecting a girl. but the doctor then gave me an injection in my belly and when i woke up the baby in my belly was gone they did that 6 times in 8 years. the word to me would be not only did my daughters die i died during all this too i'm dead inside. ready really really good thing when i was pregnant with the daughter i have now

they tried the same thing again the media bought me but i got sick and went to my mother's. they wanted to pick me up and take me to the doctor. but i refused to go any. i mean she was lucky a lawyer for human rights took on a case. he had her in-laws put in jail for a short time negotiating a settlement. but he couldn't help her get over the loss of her 60 options. it is gone virtually unnoticed that fewer and fewer girls are being born. today there is officially a shortage of 177000000 and the number of countries that are coming daughters is growing there are currently 19.

as in china and india the lack of women of marriageable age in south korea has now become a problem. just like in china and india the lack of women of marriageable age in south korea has now become a problem. you have to like through work yes there are too few women here so the farmers can't find wives. and they look for one somewhere else they say it costs around $10000.00 to get one from viet nam. these women are usually about 20 years old and give birth to very lovely children. and one there are many of these women living in our area who are looking octal we could i knew what.

a lucrative business as a merged around women as a commodity. that which is missing in one's own market after decades of selective abortion is simply imported from poor and neighboring countries. but south korea faces another problem nowadays many south korean women do not want to have children as will the population is drastically declining. once again politics has intervened with drastic measures. whereas young women 60 years ago were encouraged to have abortions now it is strongly from the plan and criminally prosecuted to terminate a pregnancy. leon n one she song to students from seoul recalled what they learned schooled on the subject of abortion. so ask a ton it that we were taught about pregnancy and abortion in elementary school. night stomach that shows films about abortion and they say that the embryos neck is

cut in the uterus and then the whole embryo is cut up and disposed of. that's how they explain abortion and they say abortion is murder this is what's taught in school and what stuck in our minds. we are only able to view abortions as something terrible to. the young women examine the subject of abortion for their master's thesis. film was soon directed the women's development institution sol for 25 years as an advisor to the students. the students tracked down dubious agencies. that arbitrate illegal abortions for large sums of money. once again women are the victims of population policy. illegal abortions bear great health risks.

but the south korean government holds on to the ban on abortion. today they mention as children at all costs. they also have warmer it kokura what was the government after back then when they allowed abortions. did they want to support women's rights. but today we can see that it wasn't about that. it was about population control they were using women's bodies as a political tool that was he says that. the south korean government has even gone so far as to publish a map of seoul on the internet showing where women of childbearing age live. the darker the pink color the greater the selection for men seeking a wife. the

chinese government has also noticed that a society without women will die out in the long run. a to child policy has been introduced in the hope of regaining a gender balance and solving the problem of an ageing population. the government is again resorting to advertisements on building for sant this time it is for daughters and therefore potential future mothers. no girls means no daughters in law. and. the government in india is also backpedaling. it also wants to motivate people to give birth to daughters there was one information campaign after another. once again the indian government is offering incentives anyone giving birth to

a daughter receives $35.00 u.s. dollars in the thank you letter from the ministry of health and family welfare. gynecologist pointed bailey is familiar with the pressure on pregnant women. he too performs abortions but never when it is a matter of the sex of the fetus. has to be easy because dr beatty doesn't think much of the new government programs. leave me wondering is that how it was as a girl as a woman when she was pregnant who was the would want to school has been the day she was born she was told that she was because you the woman and then she got pregnant in a new home with 7 other people are telling her every day that will you know you will lose everything if you produce a girl how do you know what. you don't raping a boy or girl. spot no it doesn't work

no ultimate solution is of course that people start to. respecting girls more than boys. they wanted to protect the world from a population explosion but they waged war on the poor not on poverty. had they supported education and the economic security of women birth rates would have gone down on their own. instead they forced through contraception sterilization and abortion. now history is repeating itself the u.n. population fund still uses 60 percent of its range for family planning and once again private foundations demand population reduction. makes me nervous just as the native fifty's and sixty's it was a rockefeller and ford foundation that issued marching orders to people all over

the world it makes me nervous when i hear it's the gates foundation now because of its money that's preying upon a role in global public health similar you know when back in the native fifty's and sixty's you had leaders from all over the world agreeing their population growth was a crisis right and agree that the united nations had to crash programs it makes me nervous now when people talk about the crisis of climate change and her. others who might even have to engage in crash programs. today africa is the main focus for population control the world bank and the u.n. population fund a currently pumping millions into family planning on the 2nd largest continent and a large american corporation is supplying the ultrasound devices. as in china south korea and india people and most african countries prefer some.

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