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#27 Jun 14 2012 at 12:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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My understanding it that's what has brought this issue to the forefront. While the whole issue is soaked in politics, the part to take away from the recent Planned Parenthood videos is that if someone walks into one of their facilities seeking an abortion, and then asks to delay the abortion until she can get an ultrasound in order to determine the gender before making her decision, PP will happily oblige them.


Normally, I take no issue with PP, but IF they are doing that, then there's kind of a problem if they're saying that they'll still perform the abortion at that point.

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Yup. But in a generation or two, if there is no attempt to say clearly that this isn't acceptable to us, isn't it likely that it will become acceptable? Today pretty much everyone has a negative reaction to the idea of choosing to abort based on the sex of the fetus. But if we don't put something down on paper saying that this isn't acceptable, can you say that our grandchildren wont think it's just fine?


You raise a good point. It's hard to say what will be and what won't be acceptable that long into the future. However, with the way that technology and society change and progress, it's not easy to say that what we see as right and wrong should/will be the same then. It's a touchy issue, but hopefully we can find a solution. Putting something down on paper would potentially put a stop to what is basically a "do over" for idiots, but anything we do now should be done with consideration put towards what might be relevant in the future, as opposed to the present.
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#29 Jun 14 2012 at 1:56 PM Rating: Default
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No. I disagree with that, though that is sort of a different conversation, I'll make a quick reply. I'll put it this way, I'm pro-choice, however, if my partner got pregnant, it's completely my business. I should have a say, or at least be able to weigh in with my opinion about it. It is mine too after all. That being said, I ended up in that situation with my ex last year, we agreed upon the fact that neither of us was even remotely ready, and if the test came back positive, we'd opt to abort. It came back negative, so we never had to go through with it. The point though, is that we weren't going to do anything unless we could both agree upon the course of action. That's how it should be.

Anyway, like I said, that's a different topic. This is more about the moral issue behind choosing to abort because it's not the gender you wanted,and frankly, that's an absolutely terrible reason to do it.
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#30 Jun 14 2012 at 2:02 PM Rating: Good
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Anyway, like I said, that's a different topic. This is more about the moral issue behind choosing to abort because it's not the gender you wanted,and frankly, that's an absolutely terrible reason to do it.

I don't think that anybody would (publicly) disagree with the notion that aborting solely due to the gender of the fetus is reprehensible. However, as others have stated, since you can't determine the exact motives of the woman, you can't codify this into law.

And, since women do have the unquestionable right to terminate a fetus, we're sort of forced to accept that some may terminate due to the gender of the fetus.

It's a lot like letting ***** hold rallies.

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#31 Jun 14 2012 at 2:12 PM Rating: Decent
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It's a lot like letting ***** abort their babies if they find out its Jewish.
#32 Jun 14 2012 at 2:15 PM Rating: Good
I despise the idea that a parent would abort a child simply because they wanted a child of the opposite sex. However, after having read up on China's "dying rooms", I'll revert back to my original position on abortion regardless of justification - it's better to abort the child in the womb for whatever reason than to bring it into a world that will not care for it.
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I think the point (of the legislation) is to ensure that this isn't just being done openly and thus becoming a culturally accepted thing.

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But if we don't put something down on paper saying that this isn't acceptable, can you say that our grandchildren wont think it's just fine?

Well, God forbid our grandchildren be allowed to govern themselves and make their own decisions about what's right and wrong.
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Demea wrote:
I don't think that anybody would (publicly) disagree with the notion that aborting solely due to the gender of the fetus is reprehensible.


More reprehensible than dealing drugs, or under aged drinking?

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However, as others have stated, since you can't determine the exact motives of the woman, you can't codify this into law.


Of course you can. We have laws which make it illegal for someone to sell alcohol to a minor, or to someone they suspect will provide said alcohol to a minor. Similarly, landlords can be held responsible for drug dealing/distributing/etc on their property by tenants if they knew it was happening and did not prevent it. Those laws also require someone to know what someone else is going to do, yet we managed to pass and apply them just fine.


Do these laws catch many people? Nope. But it does prevent things we find reprehensible (or even just a little bit wrong) from becoming casually accepted. The guy buying beer for the kids around the corner knows he can't tell the clerk that's what he's doing. This reinforces that what he's doing is frowned upon by society. And the tenant can't tell his landlord he's cooking meth on his property (and the landlord can't then repeat that to someone else). Again, it reinforces social perceptions.

Similarly, even if the only effect a law like this is to make the person seeking the abortion for gender reasons knowingly have to conceal that fact, it does reinforce on that person that what they're doing is not acceptable by society. And occasionally, someone will just walk up and say "I don't want a girl, so I want to abort if it's a girl". If we all agree that's reprehensible, then should we not do anything about this in cases where the person admits openly that this is what they're doing?
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I think the point (of the legislation) is to ensure that this isn't just being done openly and thus becoming a culturally accepted thing.

You're adorable for believing that.

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But if we don't put something down on paper saying that this isn't acceptable, can you say that our grandchildren wont think it's just fine?

Well, God forbid our grandchildren be allowed to govern themselves and make their own decisions about what's right and wrong.


I honestly don't understand the logic of people saying "OMG That's reprehensible" and then turning around and saying it would be fine though if their grandchildren didn't think it was. Um... Really?
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1. I, too, am more concerned about what the practice of gender-selective abortion says about a society than I am about the practice in its particulars.

2. Further, I can see problems down the line resulting from the practice. Doesn't take a crystal ball; those problems are already happening in China and elsewhere.

3. However, I would not vote to restrict the right of any individual to choose to bear and raise a child, whatever the reason. Trusting people to make their own decisions is the very basis of liberty, and refusing to interfere based on my own sensibilities is the very opposite of the dreaded "nanny state".

4. Planned Parenthood leaving an individual's options open within the law is perfectly acceptable to me.
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I honestly don't understand the logic of people saying "OMG That's reprehensible" and then turning around and saying it would be fine though if their grandchildren didn't think it was. Um... Really?


Yeah, really. Mores change all the time.
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gbaji wrote:
Demea wrote:
I don't think that anybody would (publicly) disagree with the notion that aborting solely due to the gender of the fetus is reprehensible.


More reprehensible than dealing drugs, or under aged drinking?

You think that underaged drinking is more reprehensible than aborting a fetus because you don't like the gender?

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However, as others have stated, since you can't determine the exact motives of the woman, you can't codify this into law.


Of course you can. We have laws which make it illegal for someone to sell alcohol to a minor, or to someone they suspect will provide said alcohol to a minor. Similarly, landlords can be held responsible for drug dealing/distributing/etc on their property by tenants if they knew it was happening and did not prevent it. Those laws also require someone to know what someone else is going to do, yet we managed to pass and apply them just fine.


Do these laws catch many people? Nope. But it does prevent things we find reprehensible (or even just a little bit wrong) from becoming casually accepted. The guy buying beer for the kids around the corner knows he can't tell the clerk that's what he's doing. This reinforces that what he's doing is frowned upon by society. And the tenant can't tell his landlord he's cooking meth on his property (and the landlord can't then repeat that to someone else). Again, it reinforces social perceptions.

Similarly, even if the only effect a law like this is to make the person seeking the abortion for gender reasons knowingly have to conceal that fact, it does reinforce on that person that what they're doing is not acceptable by society. And occasionally, someone will just walk up and say "I don't want a girl, so I want to abort if it's a girl". If we all agree that's reprehensible, then should we not do anything about this in cases where the person admits openly that this is what they're doing?

You're talking about definitive actions, not internal motives. One is easy to observe and prove; the other is not.
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Demea wrote:
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I don't think that anybody would (publicly) disagree with the notion that aborting solely due to the gender of the fetus is reprehensible.


More reprehensible than dealing drugs, or under aged drinking?

You think that underaged drinking is more reprehensible than aborting a fetus because you don't like the gender?


No. Which is exactly my point.

If you walk up to a store clerk with a case of beer and tell the clerk "Some kids in the parking lot asked me to buy this for them", and the clerk sells the beer to you anyway, said clerk is subject to legal action.

If you walk up to an abortion doctor and tell him "I want to get an abortion if my fetus is a girl", and the doctor performs the abortion for you anyway, he is subject to no legal action at all.


If one really is more reprehensible than the other, then why is it ok to place such a burden on the involved professional in one case, but not in the other? Remember, I'm responding to the argument that we shouldn't do this because it's somehow impractical to implement or we can't determine what the doctor knows about the motives for the abortion. I think that's a BS response though. We do this in many other cases.

Is anyone seriously arguing that a store clerk should be more capable of determining the motivation of someone buying beer than a doctor determining the motivation of a woman seeking an abortion? Cause that's pretty darn silly.

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You're talking about definitive actions, not internal motives. One is easy to observe and prove; the other is not.


I'm using cases that are more or less identical to the proposed laws. If a doctor knowingly performs an abortion in which the gender was a determining factor, then he can be held legally responsible. How is that any different than a store clerk who knows someone's going to provide the beer he sells to a minor? Or a landlord who knowingly continues to rent his property to someone distributing drugs? Or a gun store clerk knowingly selling a gun to someone planning to kill someone else.

We can toss our hands up and say "They can't possibly know what someone else is going to do or why", but that's not the point. If they can't know, then the law doesn't affect them. It's designed to make it so that if someone walks into a liquor store and says "sell me some beer so I can provide it for those kids", or walks into a gun store and says "sell me a gun so I can kill my boss", or walks into an clinic and says "give me an abortion because I don't want a girl", the law will compel the person providing the good or service to refuse it.


We do this in other cases, so the argument that it's somehow impossible to do it here is just plain false.

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gbaji wrote:
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I think the point (of the legislation) is to ensure that this isn't just being done openly and thus becoming a culturally accepted thing.

You're adorable for believing that.

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But if we don't put something down on paper saying that this isn't acceptable, can you say that our grandchildren wont think it's just fine?

Well, God forbid our grandchildren be allowed to govern themselves and make their own decisions about what's right and wrong.


I honestly don't understand the logic of people saying "OMG That's reprehensible" and then turning around and saying it would be fine though if their grandchildren didn't think it was. Um... Really?


Really? From the opposite logic then, you would say that because our grandparents thought it was reprehensible for an African American to sit wherever they like on the bus, or marry a white woman/man(oh yeah, I'm going there), we should feel the same? What we believe now will not necessarily be even what our children believe, let alone our grandchildren.
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I honestly don't understand the logic of people saying "OMG That's reprehensible" and then turning around and saying it would be fine though if their grandchildren didn't think it was. Um... Really?

The chance of you having grandchildren is low enough that you don't need to worry your head about it.
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#44 Jun 14 2012 at 11:14 PM Rating: Good
While I'm personally opposed to abortion used as birth control (Sex selective abortion would also fall under that umbrella), until I'm elected to congress or sprout a ****** I don't think my opinion matters all that much.

This bill is crap though.
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#45 Jun 14 2012 at 11:17 PM Rating: Good
I don't know. Aside from what has already been said about what this says about society and gender roles etc etc, I'm ok with this. I don't find it "reprehensible" that a woman use gender when deciding whether or not to abort. It just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me... Does that make me a bad person? Smiley: lol
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Does that make me a bad person? Smiley: lol


That isn't what makes you a bad person. Smiley: lol
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I don't know. Aside from what has already been said about what this says about society and gender roles etc etc, I'm ok with this. I don't find it "reprehensible" that a woman use gender when deciding whether or not to abort. It just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me... Does that make me a bad person? Smiley: lol

Nah, you're ok. I didn't think it was that bad either. People are going to have their reasons for abortion. This is just one of them.

Since we agree, we should get married. Smiley: inlove
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I don't know. Aside from what has already been said about what this says about society and gender roles etc etc, I'm ok with this. I don't find it "reprehensible" that a woman use gender when deciding whether or not to abort. It just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me... Does that make me a bad person? Smiley: lol

Nah, you're ok. I didn't think it was that bad either. People are going to have their reasons for abortion. This is just one of them.

Since we agree, we should get married. Smiley: inlove


We could both get pregnant then have abortions together while saying our vows. It'll be epic.
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I'm generally against the concept except in instances where there is a known high risk of a gender specific birth defect. The only one that comes to mind is Turner syndrome, but I'm guessing there are at least a handful of other diseases out there where you could garuntee with a high degree of certanty that a child of a specific gender would be born with a serious defect. In that one specific instance I would not be against an early enough selective proceedure.
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