Should sex selective abortion be permitted?

[Anonymous]

Say hypothetically a woman is pregnant, Which the sex can be determined by blood test well before it is visible on an ultra sound. She decides that the baby is not the sex that she wants and decides to terminate.

Here is the rub on this situation. Have you ever heard of Eugenics? It was a Nazi philosophy of selective abortion and birth to breed out traits that are seen as undesirable. Wrong eye color, abort, wrong hair color, Abort, Has predisposition for being obese, or autism, or really anything else. Abort. Wrong Gender, Abort.

Eugenics is not only morally and ethically wrong, Its legally wrong to the point where its seen as a crime against humanity.

So again, should sex selective abortions be allowed? I think no. But these people who are so pro choice that if a baby survives abortion, they believe the mother should be able to kill it, will likely support it.

I personally am pro choice, as long as its only for medical reasons or reasons of incest or rape, which represent 0.01% of all abortions, of which there are over a million annually.

[DrPepper12]

If that's the only reason that the mother wants to abort the fetus then absolutely not. There's a term for it, gendercide, and it says radical and as horrific as it sounds. In China and India there are " bicycle ladies " that go from village to village with portable ultrasound equipment and if it's discovered that it's a girl, she is aborted. There are over 150 MILLION (READ THAT THREE TIMES) "missing" women in China and the central planning committees at every level are scared shitless. That's 150 million men who aren't going to find sex, kids, a economic partner and I'm sure I don't need to tell you what trouble angry young men can get up to. Without continued economic growth and consumer comforts, China would explode due to this population. India is not far behind.

[jshm2]

They did that shit in India... didn't work out, and it's why they have such a bad rape culture over there.

[Asker]

Fucking hell first time I've ever up voted a comment from you.

[TrueConfection]

Nope.

It’s a good thing you didn’t include a photo. I posted a question once with a picture of an aborted baby. Gag removed it for being “too graphic” yet many states will allow minors to get abortions without parental consent (let alone Parental Guidance).

[alice55]

Abortion are not long enough to permit this? At least not in my country

[BCRanger10]

No. Abortions should not be allowed at all.

[Agape93]

Under any circumstances?

[BCRanger10]

@Agape93 that's what I said.

[Agape93]

So ectopic pregnancies where the fetus is never viable and will kill her if it isn't aborted, needs to stay so they both die. Gotcha

[BCRanger10]

@Agape93 now that is NOT in fact what I said either.

[Agape93]

I did ask if what you said meant under ANY circumstances, you confirmed it. Or is that not true now?

[BCRanger10]

@Agape93 abortion should in fact not be allowed under any circumstance. However, ectopic pregnancy does not require an abortion.

[Agape93]

It does, because without one, the woman dies. They are never viable, and will kill her if not removed.

[BCRanger10]

@Agape93 1) How certain are you of this and 2) why is "viability" the standard?

[BarryLiverstone]

How could a mom kill a baby that survived an attempted abortion?

[Asker]

I'm some states the doctor is permitted to euthanize the baby if the mom wants, Virginia is one of them. This is with late term (third trimester) abortions

[BarryLiverstone]

They kill the baby while it’s still in the womb? Seems rare

[oldpigg]

I am a medical student, babies who are around six months pregnant are injected with digoxin into the umbilical cord to ensure they are killed before being aborted, because before many babies who were aborted at that stage survived.

[Asker]

What oldpigg said. And some times it doesn't work.

[BarryLiverstone]

Right. But as a medical student how often does the mom kill the baby after an abortion?

[oldpigg]

In my country, that's not legal. If the baby survived after the abortion, it was sent to an incubator and the mother had to take care of it. But that no longer happens since digoxin is used, as it kills the baby before inducing the abortion.

[Anonymous]

all abortions should be banned. once abortion is banned, all laws would automatically be strengthened to accommodate for that

[oldpigg]

No, I am against abortion in all cases.

[Paige90]

I am too

[Agape93]

You're also a dude Paige.

[AviatorTom]

Nope, there needs to be a better reason.

[Anonymous]

didn't china do that?

[Asker]

I think so

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah I believe they killed female children if a family had more than one.

[Agape93]

Yeap