No Girls Allowed! Sweden Okays Gender Eugenic Abortion
Abortion was supposed to liberate women and protect them from unwanted pregnancies. But with prenatal testing and all, it is increasingly being used as a eugenic search and destroy tool to eliminate unwanted types of children prior to birth. In other words, eugenic abortion mixed with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in IVF--and I believe, eventually infanticide--is transforming procreation from being about having children to about having only the kind of children we want.
One targeted class of this eugenic technique is girls. In India and China, ultrasound is used to identify female fetuses for elimination--a practice so ubiquitous that a huge disparity now exists between male and female demographics. Now, gender abortion has been approved in Sweden of all places. From the story:
Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television. The Local reported in February that a woman from Eskilstuna in southern Sweden had twice had abortions after finding out the gender of the child.
The woman, who already had two daughters, requested an amniocentesis in order to allay concerns about possible chromosome abnormalities. At the same time, she also asked to know the foetus's gender.
Doctors at Malaren Hospital expressed concern and asked Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) to draw up guidelines on how to handle requests in the future in which they "feel pressured to examine the foetus's gender" without having a medically compelling reason to do so. The board has now responded that such requests and thus abortions can not be refused and that it is not possible to deny a woman an abortion up to the 18th week of pregnancy, even if the foetus's gender is the basis for the request.
And the USA? As I reported here at SHS, a bill has been introduced in Congress (H.B. 1822) to prevent gender and racially based abortions: It has no chance of passage.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:23 AM
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12 Comments:
Maybe its boys they do not want.
Since 1990, Japanese couples prefer girls to boys. This was a problem in South Korea until around 2000, when gender preference swung around to favor girls. I think the same thing will happen (if its not already) in China as well.
Usually, I am confident it will be the other way around, but either way, it is wrong.
Unfortunately, there isn't any way to outlaw abortion for a particular reason in any culture that says the right to an abortion is a basic right. It is only a basic and untouchable right if it is ALWAYS up to the mother to choose it. And, that means she can choose it for whatever reason she wants.
So, there won't be much progress outlawing abortion for gender selsctin, I am afraid. It follos the logic of abortion as a basic human right --which is a fundamentally flawed idea, I agree-- and until that idea goes, no abortion is out of bounds.
The fewerable marriagable women there are, the more a demand for women will rise up, creating an even more horrific slave trade than the one we're already battling. It boggles the mind how "feminists" are so pro-abortion when it's women who suffer the most from them. It seems that we've gotten so hedonistic that we're sitting here saying, "We don't care about other countries, we just don't want ourselves inconvinenced." Except what happens when one day the American woman turns around and finds out that she's expected, by society or by her husband/boyfriend's family or whatever, to abort any daughters she has? What happens if she *does* have a daughter and ends up seeing her kidnapped and dragged to some country with a derth of women to be enslaved to prostitution?
It's always somebody else who gets it in the shorts, right up until *we* become the "somebody else."
I'd have to agree with HolyTerror. Whatever you think of the practice of sex selection abortion, if women are allowed to kill their unborn children for the usual sorts of reasons that are advocated (poverty, inconvenience, disability etc) then on what grounds can you claim that sex selection abortion is wrong ?
Any argument for the other reasons tend to centre around the humanity of the unborn and the wants of the mother. But those arguments will work just as well for sex selection abortions as any other.
T E, spot on. We already see it in this country. Young girls are sexually assaulted by much older men, and the abortion industry patches them up with majik medicine before sending them back to the abuser. All the time, women abort to cover up a rape, especially by an acquaintance.
Even some of those who do it so they can "finish college" or "advance their career" will admit to a family member (usually male) pressuring them in one way or another ("my dad would kill me if I dropped out of college now" or "my boyfriend really wants me to succeed").
Isn't abortion supposed to "liberate" us? It seems it's just another tool to do the opposite, but this time we're blissfully unaware of it.
The more we have discovered about the world of Science and our ability to manipulate the outcome of human biology the more unethical we have become in our morality choices .
I addressed this on the blog RH reality check and got the same response: it's wrong but it's the woman's right, so we have to suck it up.
SAFEpres -
How can that response be acceptable? "It's wrong but it's a woman's right, so we have to suck it up?" That makes no sense!
If it's wrong, then it's wrong, *period.*
"It's wrong for cannibals to eat other humans, but it's part of their culture and they have the right to participate in their culture, so we have to suck it up."
"It's wrong for 40-year-old men to marry 12-year-old girls for a dowery, but it's part of the culture, so we have to suck it up."
Sheeesh!
Well they don't have enough sunlight there; what do we expect. Isn't that the same part of the world where it was "normal" for the baby to precede the wedding before it started to be here?
As far as I'm concerned if a woman wants to kill her foetus it's her business. As long as it's her decision alone. Why should someone who would do that be reproduced anyway. It's part of nature that pregnancy and motherhood don't always work out, for whatever reason. When it starts becoming a matter of medicine, society, law, men getting involved, parents and family butting in, decisions made on the basis of her "career," "fertility medicine," politics, etc., then we're in trouble.
TE-I know. This is the link that I posted on the site:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/reader-diaries/2009/05/13/gender-selection-and-abortion-sweden
And here is the article that appeared a day or so later:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/05/14/genderbased-abortions-a-slippery-slope
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