Abortion and Sex Selection

"At least 60 million girls who would otherwise be expected to be alive are ‘missing’ from various populations as a result of sex-selective abortions or neglect." This sentence was part of an article I read recently and seemed to me a really big number until I realized that most of these abortions were conducted in China and India and therefore not the subject of discussion here in the U.S. This situation reminds me of the intellectual trap in which liberals find themselves with other issues. Liberals find all manner of reasons why our slavery hundreds of years ago is harming blacks in the U.S. today, but say not a word about those being held in slavery today in other countries. The problem the left has with abortion rights--a woman's right to choose death for her fetus--is clearly revealed by their complete silence on the practice of abortion to choose the sex of the new-born. It is hard enough to feign a moral stance when advocating abortion for any reason, but the cognitive dissonance required to support a womans right to choose while opposing abortion for sex selection is so obvious that the liberals choose to simply ignore the situation. Can't really blame them.