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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.

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Appalling

[(Anonymous)]

*chants "Thou shalt not judge, thou shalt not judge, thou shalt not judge..."*

How insidiously horrifying. This may be one of the most selfish acts that I have ever heard of. In my eyes, the problem here is that when one conceives, it stops being about you and starts being about the child. For nine months (and beyond) you are that child's voice. I am not raging pro-life, nor am I militantly pro-choice. There are situations where both are appropriate. But to go into a conception knowing that there is a 50/50 chance that you'll be aborting based on something so fundamentally insignificant is...well, so far beyond wrong as to not have a word to describe it. Obviously I don't know these two personally, but that they would make such a decision indicates they are far too wrapped up in themselves to see that bringing a child into the world isn't just about them.

Re: Appalling

[peacey.livejournal.com]

And yikes, forgot to log in. The above was mine. :)

Re: Appalling

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I am not raging pro-life, nor am I militantly pro-choice. There are situations where both are appropriate. But to go into a conception knowing that there is a 50/50 chance that you'll be aborting based on something so fundamentally insignificant is...well, so far beyond wrong as to not have a word to describe it.

Darling, you have pretty much summed up exactly how I feel about it. *loves* I don't think circumcision is insignificant (I'm strongly opposed to it, actually). But ending a pregnancy that was started on purpose based on the sex and not being able to make a decision about circ is beyond appalling. It's the REAL meaning of abomination, IMO. As robinhoo said, a foreskin is not worth a life. The whole thing is so bloody offhand of this couple. I also don't think it's a troll because the OP has been a member of the MDC forums for a long time.