"Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman.  They think they were inserted into Luo Cuifen's body when she was a baby by grandparents upset she was not a boy."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6983435.stm

I clearly don't have all the data here, but reading this story makes me sick and reenforces (admittedly mostly on an emotional level) my personal belief in Moral Universalism, although I am a fan of the "graded absolutism" variant, which suits my pragmatism.