--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 8/12/06 8:19:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> What I'm  against is abortion based on the
> > sex of the fetus.
> > 
> >  But Judy, the mother doesn't have to give a reason why she wants 
> > to  abort a fetus. She doesn't even have to tell the ultra sound 
> > tech or  doctor she has any plans to abort and she has every 
right 
> > to know the  sex of the fetus as she would the general health of 
the 
> > fetus at the  time of ultra sound.
> 
> Which country are we talking about here, the U.S.  or
> China?
> 
> Are the rights we hold dear and sacred here too good for the
> Chinese?

Do the Chinese believe in equal rights for women?
Do they believe in the right of the elderly to a
reasonably comfortable old age, by government means
if necessary?  Do the Chinese believe access to
reliable birth control is a human right?

> Don't we believe that reproductive rights are a human
> right which is  universal.

Again, you're trying to make this into an abstraction.
If the Chinese believed in and implemented the other
rights I outlined, the issue of whether one has the
right to abort selectively based on gender would be
far less likely to arise in the first place.







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