Hockey-game banter leads to adoption – Casual conversation launches campaign that saves 40,000 lives

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http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/hockey-game-banter-leads-to-adoption/

It was a casual conversation after a pickup hockey game for foreigners living in China that opened the door to a strategy that has saved 40,000 baby girls who otherwise would have been killed.

The threat stems from the Chinese law that imposes a maximum of one child per family, combined with the culture’s preference for sons, because they carry on the family name and care for their aging parents.

The story is told in “The Pink Pagoda” by Dr. Jim Garrow, a highly successful entrepreneur who became involved in saving unwanted female newborns because of the personal plight of an employee’s sister.