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Originally Posted by Prover
I want to re-open this thread for debate on a most relevant topic: sex-selective abortions. In countries like South Korea, China, India, and Taiwan, female fetuses are increasingly being aborted in favor of males. This prenatal technology has caused a shortage of over 90 million women in Asian countries alone. If humans are at liberty to have abortions, does it not follow that they should be allowed to decide them based on sex?
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This is really orthogonal to the question of abortion, as there is already the technology to select a child's sex without recourse to abortion (
in vitro fertilization, for example). In the future there will no doubt be even easier methods.
As for choosing the sex of one's child I don't see how you can stop it once the technology is readily available. Some people in western countries are doing this too, it's just not an issue because they're not predominantly favoring one sex over the other.
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Is this a blatant form of sex discrimination against the unborn child, or merely the freedom of choice? Either way, it will be hard to ignore the consequences of those actions sure to bring about lasting damages to a culture already struggling with gender issues.
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The problem would seem to be self-correcting. To the extent a society selects one sex over the other then it will make the opposite sex that much more valuable when it comes time to find mating partners. In 15-20 years, asian women will have their pick of mates whereas asian men will have to take whatever woman will have them (and still many will not find a mate at all).
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Also, I would like to hear the opinions of those who live and die for egalitarian rights, particularly all the feminists and their supporters here, to see how they feel of course, and maybe what they think about this injustice towards unborn women.
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It's arguably more of an injustice towards men, as they will pay the price for their society's folly in the end.
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
More gay people is the answer. More gay people. Go forth and multip.. wait
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Pray they never find a gay gene. I suspect few heterosexual parents would want their child to have a gay gene once they had the ability to choose otherwise.
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