Anti abortion campaigner Dr Jo Howe plans to lead a group of young women to demonstrate outside the HQ of Hoyts at World Square, Level 50/680 George Street, in Sydney’s CBD, tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21, at 12:30 pm.
The reason is a decision by Hoyts not to rescreen the award-winning movie It’s a Girl at HOYTS Blacktown, despite having shown it before at that venue. The movie claims that every year in India and China, millions of babies are killed, neglected or abandoned simply because they are girls.
“In China and India, girls are strangled at birth, buried alive, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls,” said Professor Howe, who is currently seeking to raise the profile of sex-selection abortions in Australia. ““Every day in New South Wales, unborn children lose their lives right up to 40 weeks of pregnancy – many of them girls simply because the parents wanted a boy!” Dr Howe said.
“And right now it is legal.”
Howe says that gender selective abortions are prevalent among some community groups in Australia. “This ‘gendercide’ by Chinese and Indian Australians in Australia has been confirmed by a study from Edith Cowan University, which looked at 2.1 million births in Australia between 1994 and 2015.
“The natural ratio of boys to girls is 105 to 100 girls, but Edith Cowan University’s study uncovered the fact that some Australians of Chinese descent are delivering 134 boys to 100 girls!”
ECU reported “Using 2.1 million births registered in WA and NSW between 1994-2015, the research found that the sex ratio at birth for Indian-born mothers ranged between 105 to 109 boys for every 100 girls born, and between 107 to 110 boys for every 100 girls born to Chinese-born mothers. For Vietnamese mothers, this figure ranged from 105 to 109 boys for every 100 girls born.”
The full study is here: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0004672
“The United Nations estimates as many as 100 million girls are missing in the world today because of ‘gendercide,’ Professor Howe said. “This dreadful war against girls is rooted in terrible traditions and sustained by dangerous government policies aimed at eliminating girls.
“Shot in India and China, It’s a Girl asks why girls are either killed after birth or while still in the womb. Hoyts had no problem screening Terrifier 3 and Babygirl. Extreme violence, graphic sex, and explicit material, all fine. But a documentary about 100 million missing women and girls? That crossed the line.”
Howe has joined with NSW Libertarian MLC John Ruddick to introduce a bill aimed at banning sex-selective abortions in NSW.