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[primroseburrows]

A while ago, patchfire linked me to this post on the Mothering Dot Commune forums.

The outcome of the situation is here on post #159. How sad and pointless this decision was.


This incident is just--oh, I don't know. Not right, on so very many levels, one important one being that the accuracy of this Gender Mentor Monitor is very much in question, and in a lot of ways sounds like so much snake oil.


It's really got me thinking about the politics and bioethics of sex-selection abortions, partly because the mother chose to abort because he was a boy, rather than a girl, which is more common and is often perceived as a feminist issue.


Caveat: This post is NOT a statement about Roe v. Wade, or circumcision as a practice at all. It's about a very specific incident, and the ethics thereof. After all, just because someone has a legal right to do a thing doesn't make it ethical to do it.

patchfire has also posted about this. You can read it here.

Comments

[kupukello.livejournal.com]

"Whaaat?" was my first reaction, but then, the possibility of trolling is not that far away either.

Would you care to explain to me why the "father" was so much FOR circumcision? I understand (sort of) if it's a religious issue, but what other reasons for that are there? Kid getting teased in gym changing room? Hygiene? Tradition?

It's sort of funny; quite many people have serious trouble having any kids at all, and then they want to choose their gender, IQ, eye colour, height and shape of nose too :D It would be quite ironic if that couple couldn't get any babies at all after that ;) I still think it's a troll.

(Am very much pro-choice, and against circumcision, although my pro-choice ideology doesn't stretch quite that far)

(Hee, I've seen all of two circumcised peckers in my life, and my, are they ODD :)))

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

(Hee, I've seen all of two circumcised peckers in my life, and my, are they ODD :)))

Here it's the norm, although things are changing, fortunately.