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China's Female Infanticide Tied up in urine soaked blankets, scabs of mucus growing across her eyes. Her face, slowly shrinking to a skull, whilst malnutrition devours her two-year-old frame. Good morning, Let me ask you, could you let this dreadful occurrence happen to your daughter? Your own flesh and blood? Straight after you have given birth to her? I know I couldn't! It's disgusting! Outrageous! And makes my stomach churn twice over. Sadly, this happens …

…to the Chinese people. We need to let them know that it is wrong to abandon your newborns solely upon their gender by enforcing punishments for any such behaviour. The government needs to realise that basic rights of protection for female children are essential and need to be sought out. Female Infanticide is out rightly wrong and needs to be destabilised. You and the world don't want to see any more stories like Mei Ming's.