Using abortion to achieve a specific gender birth

[reality_hammer]

Utterly disgusting.
The board has now responded that such requests and thus abortions can not be refused and that it is not possible to deny a woman an abortion up to the 18th week of pregnancy, even if the foetus's gender is the basis for the request.

"Designer children" can't be far behind.

Comments

[anolinde]

Not that I really agree with terminating a pregnancy because you don't like the fetus's gender, but denying abortions should be illegal anyway...

[julietvalcouer]

So a doctor should be forced to perform a medical procedure regardless of whether they feel it's medically justifiable? There is no medical justification for terminating a pregnancy because you don't like the gender of the offspring.

I on the other hand would like to see it a law that someone requesting an abortion demonstrate a medical necessity or extreme circumstances (as in they're eleven and were raped by their own father.) Failure to use birth control and being too dumb to pick up Plan B (which if you're over 17 is available OTC at most national pharmacy chains in the US) is not a medical necessity.

[anolinde]

If a doctor doesn't want to perform a legal medical procedure... then maybe they shouldn't have become a doctor.

Unfortunately, birth control doesn't always work. Mistakes happen, unwanted pregnancies occur. You can't force someone to have a child. I don't care what pro-lifers say, that's a flagrant violation of human rights. No matter how stupid you are, you're entitled to those.

[psychomatt]

So a plastic surgeon who doesn't want to give a woman 50 pound boobs shouldn't have become a doctor??? How about a doctor who won't give in to those who have a fetish about having healthy limbs amputated? Those procedures are both perfectly legal, but that doesn't mean they should be done. Doctors are entitled to the basic human right of holding their own moral beliefs, too.

[lazypadawan]

What will the feminists say about sexism in the womb? It's a pretty good bet that the overwhelming majority of sex selection abortions will be done on female babies.

[juliet_winters]

This is why morality is important and not merely relative.

At their first sonograms, our daughter was dancing, and our son swam up to explore the source of the sound.

I pity the women who are talked into doing this.

[innermurk]

That makes me extremely ill.