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1. Obviously it's not either poverty or wealth which cause this horrific phenomenon. The states mentioned where it is most prevalent are also those with the lowest proportion of Christians.
   
   Things are even worse in China with its disastrous "one-child policy". Already young women are being kidnapped from neighbouring countries and sold as sex-slaves to the huge number of men who can't find a wife. Many more such horrors will follow unless these abortions and infanticides are stopped.

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