Originally posted by: -IHATEYOU-
A lot of measures have been taken through out the last decade to prevent female feticide.
Parents who abort their female child are seen as culprits and male chauvinist.
But when these same parents want to abort their child due to career/society or other reasons they are considered as independent human beings.They can do what they want to do with their body.
Then why is killing a female embryo wrong?
Both are killing.
Then if there are no anti abortion campaigns why are there so many anti female foeticides campaigns?
Why don't all kids have the equal right to live?
@Blue: That's a different debate, whether abortion should be allowed at all or not.
@Red: You asked the question after providing the answer yourself.
The campaigns are doing exactly what you desire, i.e. they are ensuring equal right to live irrespective of the foetus' or the kid's gender.
There can be various reasons because of which a woman might opt for abortion. Let's look at some of the more common causes:
1. Unplanned pregnancy - She doesn't want a baby at that point in time, period. The reason might be career, financial, personal, etc. It doesn't matter to the woman whether the foetus is male or female, she simply doesn't want a kid in her life at that time.
2. Rape - Pretty self explanatory why she doesn't want it. Once again, the woman is not concerned about the gender of the foetus. She doesn't want the baby of someone who raped her, end of story.
3. Medical reason - Could be fetal defects or danger to mother's life. It doesn't matter whether the foetus is male or female, if the doctor thinks it's risky for the mother or the foetus has defects, it's terminated.
So, if women abort because of any of the above 3 reasons or something similar to that, the decision is not being influenced by the gender of the foetus. Both male and female foetuses have an equal chance to be aborted; consequently, in the total population of foetuses, both male and female have equal opportunity to live.
Now contrast the above 3 to the one reason which the campaign targets to stop:
4. Sex selective abortion - The woman (or her husband, or both) wants a son or a daughter only and therefore aborts any foetus that is of the undesired gender. Typically Indian society prefers male kids, so female foetuses are aborted.
One gender (female) is getting aborted, whereas the other gender (male) increases in proportion. The equal right to live goes out the window. And I hope that answers your question, why abortion because of other reasons is allowed but not sex selective abortion.
Edited by souro - 12 years ago
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