The Missing Girls
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The first we’d read of Mara Hvistendahl’s book “Unnatural Selection” — about the consequences, in an age of ultra sound and abortion, of choosing boys over girls — was in a powerful review the other day in the Wall Street Journal. It was written by the Weekly Standard’s Jonathan V. Last, who writes that Ms. Hvistendahl’s tome “might be one of the most consequential books ever written in the campaign against abortion.” Though Ms. Hvistendahl herself seems to be less a foe of abortion than sex selection, her book, Mr. Last writes, “is aimed, like a heat-seeking missile, against the entire intellectual framework of ‘choice.’”
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