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So I was cruising through the ED, and along comes a thread about sex-selective abortions. Most of the people in the thread appear to have no problem with such.

To quote some in the thread "unwanted is unwanted is unwanted is unwanted", which to me, sums up the redundancy in the arguments FOR sex-selective abortions. I mean, really can I see any justification for this?

I mean, yeah, you can abort for that reason if you want, but think about what that kind of a decision means? It's one of the more petty reasons for women to choose abortion, if you ask me.

I know you guys can think of some good stuff to explain to me why people can so easily accept this.

So, are sex-selective abortions Okay?
Just justifiable through legal choice?
Reprehensible?

You tell me.

I think that's horrible and even a worse reason to abort.

The unborn child can't help what gender it will be and I can't think of one good reason for someone to abort their child cause of it's gender.

I agree with Jabberwock that it's sexist but some people would support abortion no matter the reason may be.

I don't think it's justifiable at all, law or no law it just seems wrong. This is one reason why China is having problems and soon there won't enough women there which can be a problem for men if they want to date or get married someday.

Personally, I don't think that the gender of an unborn human is a "good" reason to get an abortion. But, because I believe that abortion is legal/ethical because of the right to bodily integrity, I feel that any sort of elective abortion before medical viability (when there is an option to possibly remove the unborn human without resulting in its death) is ethical.

I wouldn't do it, and I might even think less of someone who told me they did it. Sure, I would like to have a girl, but I'd be just as happy with a boy, when we are ready to have a baby.

I think that if someone has to have a certain gender of child, they should adopt rather than try to have biological children of that gender.

The first child I adopt, I'll probably specify a girl, just because I have a younger sister, but the most experience I have with boys is a younger cousin, for whom I never even babysat. I'm not sure either why anyone would put themselves through the difficulty of getting pregnant and having abortions when they could just pick out a baby of their preferred gender.

I think in a gender-blind world, everyone would have the same response as my dad did when asked "are you hoping for a boy or a girl?"

"Yes."

Wonderful!

My husband and I wanted a girl SO badly. When we found out Brandon was a boy, we were literally devastated. Literally. I cried for a couple of weeks. It seems silly in retrospect, but we were SO looking forwards to a baby girl.

We didn't abort. We kept Brandon, and are completely happy to have a son. Aborting because of gender isn't something that we'd do. Aborting for some other reason (really bad physical deformities, mental disabilities, etc), well, we're still not really sure where we stand.

Still, I would support someone's choice to abort because of gender. While it's not something that *I* would do, I still feel that 'unwanted is unwanted'. (Although that wasn't me in the thread XD)

If the parents simply aren't going to love the child as much, simply based on something as arbitrary as gender, then I really would prefer the child to never have existed, then to go into the 'system' knowing that Mommy and Daddy wanted a girl/boy and so didn't want you based on something that you couldn't change anyways.

Then they can give it up to someone that does want it. Gender is no reason to take a life in my opinon (I can understand serious phyiscal health problems though).
Even if I were to support or agree with abortions (outside of health problems), I'd still think that is a bad idea just because of the fact it's sexism.
The child does exist, even if it's unborn (must at least be around second trimester in order to have known it's gender).

Sexual orientation?