General Chat

Reading in the paper today,that abortions based on the sex of the child are being carried out in this country,this practice has been banned in this country for 45yrs, i was suprised that it had ever been legal in the first place.
what are your views? :-(

disgraceful - should not be allowed - no one should mess with nature

Horrendous!! but maybe there are medical reasons for doing it ?

If its purely done to ensure a male heir then its disgusting.

I would say more but I would be banned.

It has happened in some cultures for years where boys are more valued than girls. I think some people will follow their culture wherever they live in the world and whatever the law is. I don't know, but suspect some would go back to countries where it isn't illegal for it to be done then come back here.

As for those who want to 'balance' the sexes of their children, whatever happened to the idea of a child being a wonderful gift to be cherished and be grateful for.

There can be medical reasons for some I'm sure and no-one would disagree with those, otherwise it sounds like sex discrimination before you are even born to me.

Yes i agree JUDE ,
sometimes its done for medical reasons,genetic testing where a certain sex would carry a faulty gene .and i know that in China they had an one child policy and abortions were carried out when the sex of the child was female.
but what i can make out is this is healthy children being aborted because their parents want a certain sex,and doctors are being paid to do it illegally. :-(

Apart from when a hereditary disease is passed down throgh either the male or female line, then you take what you get. Men often want sons, but when they get a daughter are putty in their hands!

i dont agree with abortions unless exceptional circumstances,

one being in the instance of hereditory disease, evn then i think its a very very fine line, :-(

In some area's l believe they are going to stop scans to determine the sex of a baby.

Suzanne...my name looks great in capitals but you can lower them if you want.... ;-)

Don't know how we can say selected abortion is wrong without agreeing that all abortion is so.

lots of hospitals now wont divulge the childs sex to certain ethic groups.but cant stop them paying private to find out......

Dermot,,,,,,All abortions can not be condemed,,,,,,often a mother life is at risk,its a personal choice that applies to everyone if thats a route that needs to be taken.

Jude.forgot to take the caps lock off.

Dermot. some abortions have to be undertaken to save horribly ill and deformed children being born,children who will have nothing but horrendous pain and no quality of life, so i would agree that abortion in a small amount of cases would be a last resort, but we are talking about gender selection here,nothing wrong with the baby"s other than the sex. :-(

But for international campaigner Ginna Jessen, the argument is not about when abortions should be carried out - but whether they should be legal at all.

Some of her arguments are hard to deny because Gianna herself was ‘aborted’ at seven months - she survived!! Incredible!

Trying to say what I think, without offending :-D I feel about abortion much the same as I feel about euthanasia.

Always choose life...unless you are sure there is, or can be, no quality of life.

Just because of gender selection, perfectly healthy babies....no way!!

jude :-(

Suzanne ...... :-D

my mums cousin had an abortion in the early 70s, she convinced the dr that another child would push her over the edge mentally(she had mild mental health problems) she aborted her child at 28wks.
my cousin had four children all of them born before 30wks(2 at 25wks) one died and all the others survived with no problems,bearing in mind that its hard even at 20wks to discover the sex(my daughter was 26wks before she found out) so a lot of these woman are having abortions after 20wks and paying drs to carry them out.
I do agree that some abortions need to be legal,but strict guidelines need to be in place.,and should only be carried out if the child you are carrying has no hope of living a normal life.x :-(

Murder!

yes ronald in all cases of abortion it is murder,but we really must ask ourselves in some cases,are we putting some babys through terrible pain and no quality of life for our own selfish reasons? :-(

thought a lot more views would have been posted for this quite controversial topic. :-S

Well I wasn't going to add but I have been sitting here thinking and the subject is very difficult for me as my husband and I cannot have children so to here that babies are being aborted because they are the "wrong" sex is a disgrace. I was jumped on about this subject a while back so I was concerned about adding. Having children is a blessing and shouldn't be messed with
Rachx