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Author Topic:   Having it both ways (Chinese abortion policy & Pro-choice/life considerations)
Jon
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Message 4 of 59 (396631)
04-21-2007 12:26 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Hyroglyphx
04-21-2007 10:48 AM


Is it wrong to abort more female's than males?
No. If we look at 150 random abortions, and 125 happen to be female, I don't think anyone Pro-Choice would start complaining. Their complaints don't originate from the actual abortion of these females, but instead from the thought up intention of reducing the number of females in the Chinese society. Is this wrong? To want to reduce the number of females in society? I don't think it is, so long as such reductions are not being carried out by ending the lives of people already in the world. Some societies value male children, and the families have little use for the females. Some societies value female children, and the families have little use for the males. The Chinese population is doing what it thinks will help it better survive. It is falling into the beautiful formula of Darwinian evolution, just like every successful criter on the planet.
I would assume also, however, that many Pro-Choicers are also female rights activists. In my opinion, it is the fact that they are feminists before Pro-Choicers that is causing this reaction. One point which they might have, is that the women are not being allowed to choose in China whether they want the abortion or not. I don't know if this is truly the case, but perhaps Pro-Choicers see something like high female abortions as being a sign that women are forced into aborting. This of course takes away their choice, and that would cause the Pro-Choicers to grow red with angry rage.
Myself, as a Pro-Choicer, could care less how many children of each sex are aborted. So long as both couples freely choose to abort--in absense of necesity based on the mother's ability, health etc.--and one member of the couple does not force the decision on the other (including women forcing it on the men), I do not see why there should be any problem one way or the other.
Jon

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