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This passage especially struck me:

Abortion was a huge killer of women in this period, but Christian women were spared that. And infanticide—pagans killed little girls left and right. We’ve unearthed sewers clogged with the bones of newborn girls. But Christians prohibited this. Consequently, the sex ratio changed and Christians didn’t have the enormous shortage of women that plagued the rest of the empire.

Paganism + abortion = dead girls.

So it was, and so it is still: That's why feminists, who claim women have a right to medical privacy, and to make choices with "their" bodies, have worked to outlaw ultrasound in India: because abortion, in pagan cultures, mostly kills little girls, not boys.

(If paganism elevates the view of women, how could this be so?)

Another example, from China:

To make sure the women kept their birth control devices in, the government — starting in 1982 — sent portable ultrasound machines all over the country. They are compact and lightweight and even some small villages got as many as two or three. But in a classic case of unintended consequences, pregnant women realized that the machines could also identify whether they were having a boy or a girl. And, as a result, by conservative estimates, more than 8 million girls were aborted in the first 20 years of the one-child policy.

The government has tried to discourage these abortions. Zhao Baige, vice minister of the Family Planning Commission, says it is now illegal to get an ultrasound in order to identify the sex of a baby.

"It is against the law," she explained.

A pregnant woman can still get an ultrasound, but only if it’s medically necessary. [1]

Oh, that's ironic: "I oppose ultrasound, except in cases of rape, incest, or where the mother's life is in danger."

Christians have always opposed abortion. It's not some new invention, as the "left" would have it, created by the "radical right." And women, and particularly baby girls, have always benefitted from that opposition. Even now, we're learning about how devastating harmful, both physically and psychologically, abortion can be for women.