Ash Wednesday Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 [url="http://www.thelocal.se/19392.html"]http://www.thelocal.se/19392.html[/url] If you wanted a boy but it's a girl, you're allowed to abort for that reason. And vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Diabolical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariaane Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 My, don’t people have short memories? China did the[b] exact same thing[/b], and guess what happened? Girls were more selectively aborted than boys which lead to a shortage of wives for Chinese men. And Sweden is said to be a highly intelligent nation??? Humans are destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again... [url="http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=1566"]http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=1566[/url] [b]Shortage of girls[/b] forcesChina to criminalise selective abortion The Chinese government is to make the selective abortion of female foetuses a criminal offence and will ban parents from obtaining ultrasound scans to discover their unborn baby's sex, in an attempt to tackle an unwanted side-effect of its "one-child" policy. It has set up a commission to draft changes to the criminal law aimed at closing the widening gap between the number of boys and girls in the country. According to the most recent official figures, [b]119 boys are born in China for every 100 girls[/b], largely because parents abort baby girls to try for a boy. Zhang Weiqing, China's minister for national population and family planning, who announced the crackdown, said: [b]"The government takes it as an urgent task to correct the gender imbalance of newborns."[/b] "If you look [b]in primary schools, there are a lot more boys than girls[/b] and this is going to create a big social problem," said Professor Li. [b]"We have 10 to 15 years to solve this otherwise the problem will be very severe _ and who knows what will happen?" [/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BG45 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I was just thinking of China when reading this thread title, but I've been beaten to the point. Oh, and as a bone for the board members who enjoy rumors of war and such, historically nations with excessive male populations end up with severe internal strife or going to war as a means of "population control". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamalove Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Doesn't Roe v. Wade & Doe V. Bolton make that legal here as well? Norma McCorvey will tell you she's received "testimonies" to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginiancatholic Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I don't think Roe vs. Wade necessarily makes that a law, but we certainly don't have much prohibiting abortions in the United States today. I'm sure you could do this if you wanted to...and if this reason wouldn't hold water, you could make up another. Honestly though, you can have an abortion for any reason right now, so this works with that idea. On the topic of China, I've a friend who was over there for a coupe of years working in the poorer and inner-city sections of the country. She said that the wife problem is so bad over there that many men are marrying retarded women simply to have a child by her and then throw her back out into the street. I don't think they have 10-15 years to "fix" the problem...it's already been a problem for so long. Excellent reading on the subject is a book titled [i]A Mother's Ordeal [/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 [quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1865862' date='May 13 2009, 03:28 AM'][url="http://www.thelocal.se/19392.html"]http://www.thelocal.se/19392.html[/url] If you wanted a boy but it's a girl, you're allowed to abort for that reason. And vice versa.[/quote] But aren't they already allowed to abort for any old reason at all? "Babies make my butt big" "I wanna be a fashion model" "Pregnancy interferes with my binge drinking" Why is "I wanted a boy" any more shameful? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didacus Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 This is simply a logical conseuqence of the pro-abortion thinking. As my friend put it; "Abortion is simply a way of getting rid of the undesireables." Of course anyone who supports 'choice' will never admit this truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithLuin Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Yes, anywhere 'abortion on demand' is available, the parent could make this choice. China isn't the only one with the skewed male/female ratio - India is having a similar problem. But there, parents don't always get an ultrasound; they sometimes wait until the baby is born, and then practice infanticide. The incidence of infant deaths (prior to age 3 mo.) is higher among female babies than male babies there. As far as I know, a trend of sex selection has not been noticed in the US. But that does not mean this never happens here - just that it doesn't happen often enough to be statistically significant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didacus Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 [quote name='MithLuin' post='1866293' date='May 13 2009, 03:42 PM'][snip] As far as I know, a trend of sex selection has not been noticed in the US. But that does not mean this never happens here - just that it doesn't happen often enough to be statistically significant.[/quote] Or the stats are simply not being reported as such. I don't think Planned Parenthood would have any interest in reporting anything of the sort, at least not at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 [quote name='Didacus' post='1866297' date='May 13 2009, 03:47 PM']Or the stats are simply not being reported as such. I don't think Planned Parenthood would have any interest in reporting anything of the sort, at least not at the moment.[/quote] I cannot imagine that PP has asked or has any interest in asking people their motive for abortion. That they want it is reason enough for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilde Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I think it's pretty easy getting an abortion. I don't think anyone can deny you an abortion because they don't like your reason. But it's odd that it would happen in these parts though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariaane Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 (edited) [quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1866217' date='May 13 2009, 08:04 PM']But aren't they already allowed to abort for any old reason at all? "Babies make my butt big" "I wanna be a fashion model" "Pregnancy interferes with my binge drinking" [b]Why is "I wanted a boy" any more shameful?[/b][/quote] Aborting babies is intrinsically evil. But aborting babies in a way which will sckew the male-female ratio is not only intrinsically evil, but will prove particularly detrimental to [i]all[/i] of society when generations of men are left without wives. As virginiancatholic has mentioned, it can, and has even lead to the abuse of vulnerable women by men for the sake of producing offspring. It can even possibly lead to the eventual demise of a nation. Edited May 13, 2009 by ariaane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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