Gendercide is a serious issue. It is where a large group of people get together and decide to kill a whole gender of people. It is occurring in many third-world countries today. In countries like China and India female babies are not worth as much as male babies. The mothers are very poor and decide to kill their baby girls rather than raise them. In some countries there is a limit to the number of babies a household can have and so they kill the females and hope for a male baby next time. The story of the mother who threw her newborn baby girl out in the pig's slop was especially disturbing to me.
Every life is precious and is created in God's image (Genesis 1:27). The bible also tells us not to murder in Exodus 20:13.
Gendercide is very offensive to God because he created everyone equally and with his own perfect touch. It hurts God's feelings when we treat certain people lower than others.
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