I don't want it if its a girl! Abortion related to sex discrimination is on the increase, and as doctors turn a blind eye who is going to put a stop to it?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105105/Doctors-agree-abort-babies-wrong-sex.html
The difficulty here is that, if the woman/couple said, 'we can't afford a baby right now' or gave another explanation, they could go ahead with an abortion no questions asked, right? So the issue isn't that of the actual abortion, its whether prospective parents should be allowed to know the sex of their child before the 24 week termination period. This issue has put me in a position where I am finding it very difficult to remain neutral. I personally think that there is something so dismissive and ignorant about challenging the natural wonders of the human body, and that includes 'choosing' the sex of your unborn baby. Its hard to accept the reasoning of: 'Well, we were hoping for a girl really' as a legitimate excuse to terminate, by that point, not a foetus but a baby.
In places like, for example only, China where there is overpopulation and the law allows on one child per family, couples desparately want boys, and if a girl is born they are abandoned and forced into a life generally of poverty, orphanhood and often misery.
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Let's look at it from the point of view of the unborn. If they could speak they'd probably want to say "What! ...so you are going to kill me just because I'm a girl!".
The question is: why are we indulging "designer babymaking"? Without going into the issues raised by MDDavies re China, I think we should focus on UK and find ways of exposing this practice. Investigative journalists would do well to provide the oxygen of the press to help snuff this out.