Heather Stilwell noticed something strange was going on in her hometown of Surrey, B.C. A school trustee for Surrey District No.36 for 12 years now, one of Stilwell’s personal causes has been to promote literacy among kids. On her own time and her own dime, she sews book bags for kindergartners, using wholesale or donated fabric, and stuffs them with books. The girls like Wemberley Worried, tales of an apprehensive mouse. The boys, usually anything to do with dinosaurs. She estimates she’s given out about 5,000 of these gifts since she started.
Heather Stilwell has given out 5,000 book bags to Surrey, B.C. kindergartners over more than a decade. In recent years, the number of pink bags has decreased as the number of girls in the classes has been falling.
In recent years Stilwell realized that she’d been having to make more and more of the plaid or striped bags she gives out to the boys and fewer of the pink floral bags for the girls. More dinosaur books, fewer Wemberleys. She can’t put her finger on why, but the boy–girl ratio seems to be increasingly out of whack. “The numbers look pretty skewed to me,” she says. She’s sure of one thing: “[There're] more boys.”
As it turns out, Stilwell is right. According to data analysis by the Western Standard, Surrey is just one part of the country that exhibits a significant deviation in the standard boy–girl ratio. Further evidence obtained by this magazine, including interviews with doctors and clinic workers suggests a plausible reason why: sex-selection abortions.
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