Sex Selection Abortions Archives

Pro-Choicer dismisses Asian immigrants

Pro-choice activist Noah Millman argued that pro-life legislation banning sex-selective abortions wasn’t needed because they weren’t happening, then contradicted himself by saying:

The problem with [the] proposal is that it’s not entirely clear there is a problem. Sex-selection abortion is a huge tragedy in parts of Asia, but to the extent it’s happening in this country, it’s mostly among Asian immigrants.

Noah Millman WHEN IS A PROBLEM NOT A PROBLEM? States News Service June 1, 2012

One wonders why Millman does not seem to think that Asian immigrants are very important.

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Pro-Lifers found 6 studies showing sex-selection abortions are happening in the US

When pro-lifers tried to pass PRENDA, the law that would have banned the abortion of babies on the sole basis of their sex, pro-choice activists managed to kill the bill. Pro-life legislators highlighted no fewer than six studies that showed that sex-selection abortions are taking place in the U.S.

This was documented in Cheryl Wetzstein “Bill to ban abortions for sex selection defeated; 246-168 vote far short of passage” The Washington Times June 1, 2012

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Pro-Choice Activist on Sex-Selection Abortions

A pro-abortion activist admits that abortions happen because the baby is a girl and the couple wants a boy:

As a movement, we need to have a social debate about the merits of abortion for sex selection in a world that not only privileges but “chooses” male babies … [T]he preference for male children is clearly alive and well domestically and abroad …

research suggests that there is indeed a cross-cultural preference for boys. It is irresponsible to promote sex selection without acknowledging the misogyny still rampant throughout our world and with no thought for what that could mean to future generations.

Pandora L. Leong “I’m Not Sorry” Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006)

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Prominent Indian feminist defends sex-selective abortion

Nivedita Menon, Indian feminist scholar:

“[W]e cannot hold simultaneously that abortion involves the right of women to control their bodies, but that women must be restricted by law from choosing specifically to abort female fetuses. We seem to be counterposing the rights of (future) women to be born against the rights of (present) women to control over their bodies.”

Nivedita Menon “Abortion As a Feminist Issue: Who Decides, and What?” Outlook India May 12, 2012

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One third of South Asian immigrants dealt with physical abuse or neglect for not bearing a son

A study done on a group of South Asian immigrants living in the United States found that one third of them had experienced physical abuse and/or neglect for failing to conceive and give birth to a son. The sample was recruited from a clinic that did sex determination tests. It is implied that many of the women were learning the sex of their unborn children in order to have an abortion if they were female. This statistic suggests that up to 1/3 of Asian American women who abort their pregnancies because of sex selection may be abused and/or coerced.

Sunita Puri et al., “There Is Such a Thing As Too Many Daughters, but Not Too Many Sons: A Qualitative Study of Son Preference for Fetal Sex Selection among Indian Immigrants in the United States” Social Science and Medicine 72, 1169 – 1170 (2011)

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Planned Parenthood fights ultrasound- except when it’s for sex-selection abortion

Planned Parenthood opposes laws that would allow a woman the chance to see her baby on the ultrasound screen before an abortion. According to Planned Parenthood’s website:

“While the ultrasound bill was amended in Virginia, it is still an appalling and offensive government overreach that is designed to shame women who are seeking legal health care. Governor McDonnell clearly has a political agenda to restrict women’s access to health care, and the ultrasound law is just the latest example of his extreme agenda,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

“The bottom line is that Governor McDonnell is looking to further his own political ambitions at the risk of hurting women’s health in Virginia. The country has stood up and is taking notice.”

“Planned Parenthood Federation of America Strongly Condemns Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell Signing Mandatory Ultrasound Bill” Planned Parenthood Website

And yet, when commenting on the morality of using ultrasound pictures to determine whether an unborn baby is a girl in order to abort based on her gender, Planned Parenthood’s director of community relations in Lancaster County, PA said:

“The information about a woman’s pregnancy has to be made available to her. We can’t legislate what a man or a woman will do with medical information. Physicians with problems with the way a patient will use information they give them should let the patient know so they can go elsewhere.”

Christopher Farley “The Debate Over Uses of Prenatal Testing” USA Today Feb 2, 1989 1D

Planned Parenthood opposes women’s access to ultrasound technology if it means that they may be dissuaded from abortion, but supports the use of ultrasound technology if its purpose is to determine whether a baby should be aborted. This blatant pro-abortion bias truly shows where Planned Parenthood’s priorities lie.

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Sex Selection abortions are a woman’s right says feminist

Taslima Nasreen, pro-abortion feminist, tweeted:

“Abortion including sex selective is women’s rights. Why should women want female babies knowing girls are hated,abused,raped, killed by men?”

Cassy Fiano-Chesser “Pro-abortion feminist echoes Planned Parenthood founder: People with ‘bad genes’ shouldn’t reproduce” Live Action News June 20, 2019

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Indian feminist speaks out in support of sex-selection abortions

Nivedita Menon, Indian feminist scholar:

“[W]e cannot hold simultaneously that abortion involves the right of women to control their bodies, but that women must be restricted by law from choosing specifically to abort female fetuses. We seem to be counterposing the rights of (future) women to be born against the rights of (present) women to control over their bodies.”

Nivedita Menon “Abortion as a Feminist Issue: Who Decides, and What?” Outlook India May 12, 2012

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Study shows many women seeking sex-selection abortions are abused

A survey was done of South Asian immigrant women recruited from a clinic that provides sex determination tests. This clinic was located in the US but catered to Asian women who wanted to find out the sex of their babies to have an abortion if the child was a girl.

It found that one third of the women cited past physical abuse and neglect related specifically to their failing to produce a male child.

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Sonographer asked about sex-selection abortion

The Sydney Morning Herald had an article about a sonographer who was asked what sex the baby was. The parents intended to abort if the baby was a girl

The sonographer says:

“They said something along the lines of ‘We need to know the sex, because if it’s a girl we are going to terminate it’,” they said.

You have to deal with things like terminal cancer and miscarriages when you’re working as a sonographer. But this occasion, it still sickens me to this day.”

From the author of the article:

As was the policy of their employer, the sonographer did not tell them the sex at the first scan, although they were so shocked by the incident, they can’t remember if they noticed if it was a boy or a girl.

From the sonographer:

“I did wonder for some time what became of that baby.”

Aisha Dow “‘We need to know the sex. If it’s a girl we are going to terminate it‘ The Sydney Morning Herald 19 August 2018

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