--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 8/11/06 3:21:40 P.M. Central Daylight > > > > Time, > > > > > > > > sparaig@ writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you support abortion, you can't be against aborting > > > > female > > > > > > > > > fetuses. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can if the ONLY reason is because they're female. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It's a mothers right to choose. Women have the right to > > > > decide if > > > > > > > > they want to carry a child regardless of it's sex. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps, but the social issue is overwhelming the > > individual > > > > rights > > > > > > > in this case. The individual's right to choose is leading > > to > > > > > > > exceedingly lopsided male-female ratios that may > > > > > > > well destroy Chinese and Indian society if left unregulated. > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't know how the heck you'd regulate it. Ban > > > > > > the aborting of female fetuses but not male? How > > > > > > long would it be before you had an imbalance the > > > > > > other way? > > > > > > > > > > Ban anything that can be used to determine the sex of the > > > > > fetus. Ultrasound while the mom isn't allowed to look, would be > > > > > OK, as long as the doctor doesn't reveal the sex. > > > > > > > > Hey, that might actually work. > > > > > > So let me see if understand this. > > > > > > Judy is all for the right of a mother-to-be to kill her fetus > > > > ("Woman" would be the appropriate term in this > > case.) > > > > but > > > she's for banning her right to know what that soon-to-be-dead > > > fetus' sex is???? > > > > What I'm against is abortion based on the > > sex of the fetus. > > > > What Shemp doesn't get is that this has nothing to do with moral/ethical issues, _per se_, > but with the serious consequences of a sex-biased culture acting as-a-whole to skew the > birth rate in favor of one sex over the other.
Of course I get that...it would be a disaster...but, sorry, those are the consequences of supporting abortion. And, yes, you necessarily get one with the other. Can't get around that no matter how hard you try. > While there would be SOME sociietal problems > if there were an anti-male bias in China or India, the consequences will be disasterous > because it is an anti-female bias. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
