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It's A Girl? I'm Having An Abortion
Posted Jul 13th 2007 10:58AM by Dinesh D'SouzaFiled under: Gay and Lesbian, Abortion, Cultural Left
The effort by Western groups like Planned Parenthood International to promote legalization of abortion throughout the world has produced a strange side effect: the mass-scale killing of female fetuses. Several years ago the New York Review of Books published an article on the tens of millions of women "missing" around the world because they were killed off before being born.
In India, the practice of female feticide has eliminated approximately 10 million women. The country has a preponderance of men over women--1000 women for every 927 men. Recognizing the growing problem, the government is now taking steps to monitor abortions based on sex selection. Health minister Renuka Chowdhury says she wants to make sure there are "valid and acceptable reasons" for abortion. Ah, yes, but the moment you admit that, you abandon the logic of abortion-on-demand, which is that abortions should be entirely the decision of the person having them.
In the West, a new issue looms on the horizon. If homosexuality has a genetic component, technology is making it more likely that pregnant women will be able to tell whether their unborn child is going to be gay or not. Once this happens, it's quite possible that we will see lots of people opting to abort homosexual fetuses. Anti-gay prejudice need not be the reason; many parents may simply not want a son or daughter to go through the difficulties of being gay in a largely heterosexual society. We can expect to hear things like, "I'm doing this for its own sake."
Today the safest place for unborn girls in India, China, and many other countries is in the womb of religious women and women who oppose abortion. Similarly the cultural left may soon discover that the safest place for gay fetuses in America and Europe are the wombs of evangelical Christians and prolife women.
Ok, WOW! I have never read this guy's blog before and I don't know how to link it other than what I did, copying the link and pasting it, but what a thought....and what a new way to protest abortion...good argument too. I was thinking as I read it that its so true about the huge impact our decisions make that we don't think about the future, but we just think about the NOW and how do I feel NOW. I think that is what we all do most of the time anyway, think selfish thoughts and how I feel about my choice for the moment. Here China only wants couples to have two kids. Obviously its better to have only boys because they can make money and support you later on....so everyone kills the baby girls and not necessarily in utero...and so 20 years later there aren't any girls to marry all those boys...and so what happens? Unrest in the villages and all the men in the cities who can afford it LEAVE. Sounds like a choice that is going to bite that country in the butt. As for America and killing homosexual fetus'....mmmm, I can see that being a problem...sooo, now we care though, didn't care back in the day, but now that it is a problem we want to change our policy and views.....
Friday, July 13, 2007
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