"Empowering women" code for devaluing and controlling them

Has anyone else noticed that the newspeak about "empowering women" that just is code for devaluing and controlling women's lives?  Liberals talk a good game about giving women "reproductive rights" and "education" but it is really a front for misogyny.  Case in point, abortion.  What is championed as the liberator of women is now estimated to have killed 163 million girls all over the world just because they were female.  From the Wall Street Journal's book review of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men:

In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that's as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events.

Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. China's and India's populations are mammoth enough that their outlying sex ratios have skewed the global average to a biologically impossible 107. But the imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.

What is causing the skewed ratio: abortion. If the male number in the sex ratio is above 106, it means that couples are having abortions when they find out the mother is carrying a girl. By Ms. Hvistendahl's counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world.

To put that in perspective 163 million girls is more than the entire populations of California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio combined. There is no greater deliberate killer of women these days than the abortion that is supposed to liberate us.  And with a decrease in the ratio of women to men comes a decrease in women's value.  The more men and less women, the more women are at risk for forced marriage and forced prostitution.  Sex selective abortion is the ultimate in degrading and devaluing women.  Worldwide abortion is "empowering" women straight into becoming commodities to be bought and sold.

Now Al Gore is getting in on the newspeak.  He insists that population control is important in combating "climate change."  Population control achieved by "empowering women."  From The Daily Caller:

“One of the things we could do about it is to change the technologies, to put out less of this pollution, to stabilize the population, and one of the principle ways of doing that is to empower and educate girls and women,” Gore said. “You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management so women can choose how many children have, the spacing of the children.

“You have to lift child survival rates so that parents feel comfortable having small families and most important — you have to educate girls and empower women,” he said. “And that’s the most powerful leveraging factor, and when that happens, then the population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better choices and more balanced choices.”

Now Al Gore does not come out and say it outright but in reality "empowering women" into "fertility management" is just code for controlling how many children a women is allowed to have.  That "education" can range from taxing for more than a certain number of births to forced birth control, forced sterilization and forced abortion just like they do in China.  Which is exactly what other environmentalists are advocating.  Some environmentalists are willing to impose the most draconian limits of freedom on a woman's ability to reproduce just to "save the planet."  That isn't empowering women, that is devaluing, subjugating and controlling them.

I am just wondering when the feminists are going to catch on.