Sep 15, 2012 1:25 PM GMT
Do you support the right for a woman to have an abortion simply because she doesn't like the sex of the developing fetus?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2012/09/sex_selection_in_babies_through_pgd_americans_are_paying_to_have_daughters_rather_than_sons_.html
Simpson was inseminated with the slower sperm that same day. Fifteen weeks later, she asked a colleague at the hospital to sneak in an after-hours ultrasound. The results felt like a brick landing on her stomach: another boy.
“I lay in bed and cried for weeks,” said Simpson, now 36, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy. She took a job in the operating room so she would no longer have to work with women who were giving birth to girls.
Simpson and her husband talked about getting an abortion....
The woman in the article did not end up having an abortion but the topic got me thinking. When it comes to abortions I always think of a teenager or rape victim or some woman in a position where she cannot support a child. But what about woman who just don't like the babies sex, or find it may have a chance of having a crippling deformity, or who knows in the future doctors may be able to judge how smart your future child will be....
Is there a line to be drawn?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2012/09/sex_selection_in_babies_through_pgd_americans_are_paying_to_have_daughters_rather_than_sons_.html
Simpson was inseminated with the slower sperm that same day. Fifteen weeks later, she asked a colleague at the hospital to sneak in an after-hours ultrasound. The results felt like a brick landing on her stomach: another boy.
“I lay in bed and cried for weeks,” said Simpson, now 36, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy. She took a job in the operating room so she would no longer have to work with women who were giving birth to girls.
Simpson and her husband talked about getting an abortion....
The woman in the article did not end up having an abortion but the topic got me thinking. When it comes to abortions I always think of a teenager or rape victim or some woman in a position where she cannot support a child. But what about woman who just don't like the babies sex, or find it may have a chance of having a crippling deformity, or who knows in the future doctors may be able to judge how smart your future child will be....
Is there a line to be drawn?