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It seems pretty unlikely (due to cases of identical twins where one is homosexual and the other is not) that genetics alone make someone homosexual.

Anywho, I'm hoping by then some other technology will be working (like fetal transplant surgery) to render elective abortion unnecessary.

Genetics and environment, I agree. There's so much that goes into attraction, I feel, for it to be just one or just the other. I'm rather excited about finding out more, because it's so interesting.

Lymelady is just so intelligent, I don't know what the Guild would do with her!

Childfree people need to just be allowed to sterilize themselves at 18. Then everyone else can do fetal transplant (imagine how happy sterile couples will be, being able to adopt a pregnancy!) and we can all be less unhappy about the laws, at least. *grin*

I think what's reprehensible is the way people are conditioned to believe they NEED sex-selective abortions when they wouldn't otherwise want an abortion.
A family that wants a child shouldn't feel forced to abort a pregnancy just because they'd give birth to a baby girl and she'd be worth less to them.

But I can see giant culture wars coming out of these discussions, so yeah. I think abortions should be legal, even sex selective ones, but I wish people didn't feel they needed them or else the world would end. That goes for all abortions, I guess.

Considering that gender is not at all something you can control in the womb (and something that most parents wouldn't dream of controlling outside of the womb)... its pretty silly to abort for that reason.

From where I'm coming from, if your baby is a *unwanted gender* now but you want a baby, even if you abort there's still a good chance that you will go through it all over again the next time you are pregnant so it would be an on-going problem.

And considering that you usually don't find out a baby's gender until ultrasounds are performed in the 2nd trimester, it puts you either in dangerous territory of late-term abortions OR just shelling out the extra dough to get tests (like amniocentesis) performed early on.

So it just seems lose/lose/lose to me, especially compared to selective adoption. And, hey, if you've got the cash for the testing needed and abortion service needed, then you've got the cash to adopt. You clearly don't want to bring another "unwanted" child into the world, right? So what would stop you from cutting back on the "surplus" and adopting someone in the system that suits your gender needs?

One other thing bothers me about this entire thing. The desire to have a child. The want of having a baby (of one's own) doesn't connect, in my mind, to "I'm going to get rid of it if its not a *desired gender*" ESPECIALLY in this day and age where gender stigmata has decreased so dramatically in most developed countries so that it really shouldn't matter.

I'm pro-choice, and part of me wants to say, like Tiadaria, that if the woman wants to abort, whatever the reason, she should be able to.

But, at the same time, it kind of sickens me that someone would do that. If your ONLY reason for wanting to abort is that you want a baby of a different gender... that's pretty disgusting. Give the poor child up for adoption. You were willing to go through pregnancy for a child anyway, does gender matter that much?

I don't know. It feels wrong to judge people's reasons for aborting. But I feel like sex-selective abortion is just going to far.