sex selective abortion
PRO SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION ARGUMENT
Sex-selection abortions occur on a daily basis by the thousands, everywhere around the world, primarily in Southeast Asia. Each culture has its reasons for aborting a fetus of a certain gender or race, but mainly gender. Male babies are sought after for many reasons: a few being family lineage, manual labor, and to look after the parents later on in life. I believe it would be unethical for a woman who is the vessel and the main future care provider, to not have a say in the gender of their baby. Why would a husband or the father not have a preference as well, for it is the parents that will raise and nurture these kids, not anyone else. Some cultures require dowries when a female is given away in marriage, which is another reason that families in China or India would much, rather have a boy. Since the majority of people in these countries are daily wage earners, they barely have the means to provide the necessities of life much less a dowry for marriage.
ANTI SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION ARGUMENT
To say sex-selective abortions are ethical is saying that the early practices of infanticide by the Greeks and Romans were ethical as well as moral and just. The only difference is that they did not have the technology to determine whether or not the child would be born male or female, so the unwanted baby (most of the time female) was either exposed or murdered at birth. Countries such as the U.S. and India have made sex-selective abortions illegal for a reason. There has been plenty of research into this topic before legislations governing this have passed. In India alone the male population outnumbers females by almost twice the amount. Studies show that by the year 2021 there will be 20% more men than women. Who will these men marry, who will continue to populate this country further past the middle of this century if this continues? Currently in rural parts of India fathers have to travel to different states to find wives for
Sex-selection abortions occur on a daily basis by the thousands, everywhere around the world, primarily in Southeast Asia. Each culture has its reasons for aborting a fetus of a certain gender or race, but mainly gender. Male babies are sought after for many reasons: a few being family lineage, manual labor, and to look after the parents later on in life. I believe it would be unethical for a woman who is the vessel and the main future care provider, to not have a say in the gender of their baby. Why would a husband or the father not have a preference as well, for it is the parents that will raise and nurture these kids, not anyone else. Some cultures require dowries when a female is given away in marriage, which is another reason that families in China or India would much, rather have a boy. Since the majority of people in these countries are daily wage earners, they barely have the means to provide the necessities of life much less a dowry for marriage.
ANTI SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION ARGUMENT
To say sex-selective abortions are ethical is saying that the early practices of infanticide by the Greeks and Romans were ethical as well as moral and just. The only difference is that they did not have the technology to determine whether or not the child would be born male or female, so the unwanted baby (most of the time female) was either exposed or murdered at birth. Countries such as the U.S. and India have made sex-selective abortions illegal for a reason. There has been plenty of research into this topic before legislations governing this have passed. In India alone the male population outnumbers females by almost twice the amount. Studies show that by the year 2021 there will be 20% more men than women. Who will these men marry, who will continue to populate this country further past the middle of this century if this continues? Currently in rural parts of India fathers have to travel to different states to find wives for