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If you are concerned about gender discrimination – that is, discrimination against girls and women – what would you do? Would you work to ensure that girls and women had equal access to education, training, and jobs; equal pay; equal rights in marriage; equal rights in inheritance; and access to justice, support, and redress if they are sexually abused or raped or beaten up?

Or would you investigate every woman of Asian descent to find out whether they may have had an abortion because the fetus was female, and investigate all the doctors who provide abortions to find out if they have ever allowed Asian women to have such an abortion – and prosecute them all as if they were deadly criminals and social outcasts?

Which of these alternatives would be more effective in combatting discrimination against girls and women, do you think? The former, of course.

Why is it, then, that the Daily Telegraph, UK Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt, and now the Independent, in the name of opposition to gender discrimination, appear to be pursuing the...