China’s coercive population control policies have fueled a devastating gender imbalance, with third-child births showing 133 boys for every 100 girls, according to the 2024 Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) report. This skewed ratio cannot occur naturally—it results from the systematic sex-selective abortion of baby girls, a tragic form of gendercide that devalues female life from conception.
The report estimates over 30 million more males than females in China in 2023, a direct consequence of son-preference combined with the one-, two-, and three-child policies, ultrasound technology for sex determination, and easy access to abortion. Globally, gendercide has led to 100-200 million missing women, a figure rivaling all 20th-century war casualties. As Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, notes, this is the real war on women—yet international efforts like the Beijing Declaration, which condemns prenatal sex selection and forced abortion as violence against women, have failed to stop China’s brutality since 1980.
Unmarried women and fourth children still face forced abortions, while minorities like Tibetans and Uighurs endure coercive sterilization. The Chinese Communist Party must end all population control to respect life’s sanctity. Pro-life initiatives prove change is possible. Women’s Rights Without Frontiers has saved hundreds of baby girls by affirming their dignity and providing support, reducing son-preference by 92% in some areas. Empty clinics and promises offer no hope—true solutions lie in valuing every child, male or female, from conception.
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