--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/11/06 10:47:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > It's a mothers right to choose. Women have the right to decide if > > > > > they want to carry a child regardless of it's sex. > > > > > > > > Perhaps, but the social issue is overwhelming the individual rights > > > > in this case. The individual's right to choose is leading to > > > > exceedingly lopsided male-female ratios that may > > > > well destroy Chinese and Indian society if left unregulated. > > > > > > I don't know how the heck you'd regulate it. Ban > > > the aborting of female fetuses but not male? How > > > long would it be before you had an imbalance the > > > other way? > > > > Ban anything that can be used to determine the sex of the fetus. > > Ultrasound while the mom isn't allowed to look, would be OK, as > > long as the doctor doesn't reveal the sex. > > > > Why not just ban abortion all together? > > Yeah, in a country like China. That will work.. > > Certainly you wouldn't want some politician or dictator telling you > what the sex of a child you are permitted to bring into the world > or abort should be.
This really isn't the simplistic issue some would like to make it. There isn't any "good" solution that's actually feasible given the situation in China. The ideal solution would involve everyone in China practicing sound birth-control methods *and* the society having a means of adequately taking care of the elderly so they wouldn't starve if they had no male children to support them, and/or ensuring that female children have the same opportunities that male children do so females could support their parents too. But these kinds of changes aren't *feasible* in China, at least in the short run; they couldn't be accomplished in time to avoid massive hardship if abortion were banned entirely or if the status quo of women selectively aborting female fetuses were maintained. So what you have to look for is the least-bad *feasible* solution that will allow the society to function while you work for longer-term, more positive changes. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
