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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

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.