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San Francisco May Oppose Sex-Selection Abortion Ban, Calling It Racist
Life News ^ | 9/10/14 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 09/10/2014 8:59:33 AM PDT by wagglebee

San Francisco, California is closer to becoming the most pro-abortion city in the nation. That’s because the city is about to go on record opposing a ban on sex-selection abortions.

Why would banning abortions done simply because the unborn baby is a girl be a problem? City officials opposing the ban make the claim that somehow it is racist.

From the San Francisco Examiner story:

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San Francisco would become the first jurisdiction in the country to go on record opposing sex-selective abortion bans if a resolution stating they perpetuate racial stereotypes, being introduced by Supervisor David Chiu today, is adopted by the Board of Supervisors.

Sex-selective abortion bans prohibit terminating a pregnancy on the basis of sex, and doctors who perform such abortions can face fines, jail time or lawsuits. The bans “encourage racial profiling of women by some medical providers,” according to Chiu’s resolution, and can lead to women being denied services.

“Lawmakers across the country have successfully advocated for sex-selective abortion bans by perpetuating false and harmful racial stereotypes that such laws are necessary to stop an influx of Asian immigrants from spreading this practice, and that Asian American communities do not value the lives of women,” states the resolution, which Chiu will announce at City Hall today.

So the excuse for justifying the sexist practice of banning sex-selection? Because Asian cultures tend to be the ones where the sex-selection abortion practice is most prevalent, banning it targets Asian-Americans.

Wesley Smith, a pro-life attorney who lives in California, commented on the logical absurdity.

“One would think that liberals–so opposed to real (and imagined) discrimination–would oppose abortion based on sexism. Nope,” he says. “San Francisco–where else?–could go on record opposing protecting female (mostly) fetuses from being aborted because they are the wrong gender.”

“I wonder if pro abortion types would oppose banning eugenic gay-selection abortion if a test could detect the sexual orientation of a gestating fetus,” he concludes.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; bluezones; moralabsolutes; prolife; racecard; sexselection
It is clear that the left whats as many babies killed as possible, regardless of the reason; however, it remains to be seen how they would react if the homosexuality was actually genetic and future homosexuals could be aborted.
1 posted on 09/10/2014 8:59:33 AM PDT by wagglebee
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Am I missing something here? The homo capitol of the world where sodomy and not heretosexual is the norm is one of the most pr-abortion areas on the planet?


2 posted on 09/10/2014 9:01:29 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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3 posted on 09/10/2014 9:02:18 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on 09/10/2014 9:02:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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If someone wants to abort kill their unborn baby, do they even need a reason?
5 posted on 09/10/2014 9:14:48 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: jsanders2001

Between those two approaches, it sounds like they are trying to reduce the city’s population.


6 posted on 09/10/2014 9:15:10 AM PDT by Pecos (That government governs best which governs least..)
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To: wagglebee

So let me get this straight, San Francisco passes a ban on Happy Meals, even though blacks and latinos are more likely to eat fast food...but a ban on sex-selective abortions is racist? Idiots.


7 posted on 09/10/2014 9:41:43 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: wagglebee

Be honest San Francisco has larget Chinese immigrant in their city so I have feeling that these Chinese folks who came over the boat who specified in boy only birth

That what I gather


8 posted on 09/10/2014 9:42:32 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: wagglebee

Legal abortion itself is “racist” in its original intent and in its proportional effect. San Francisco should ban totally something so egregiously racist. The existence of legal abortion available in the city is a terrible blot on SF’s record as an anti racist mecca.


9 posted on 09/10/2014 9:48:51 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: The Unknown Republican

San Francisco continues to move relentlessly beyond the limits of depravity.


10 posted on 09/10/2014 10:02:38 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wagglebee

I know what’s right here but I find myself constantly struggling to avoid dropping all resistance to letting these morons kill their own young. I know it’s wrong; no doubts but if any cohort of the population needs to be reduced its these idiots.


11 posted on 09/10/2014 10:04:42 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fictional)
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To: wagglebee

I don’t like these proposals. Inherent in them is that SOME reasons are acceptable. Sex selection - bad. Sign of the Zodiac selection? - OK!

These are not serious pro-life ideas and I would argue hurt the cause.


12 posted on 09/10/2014 10:07:02 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: wagglebee

They want more of those delicious boys . . .


13 posted on 09/10/2014 10:11:35 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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That’s actually a good tack. Claim that “sex-selective” abortions are actually “sexuality-selective” abortions.

That Planned Parenthood has actually discovered a genetic “marker” in babies that doesn’t *cause* homosexuality, but *indicates* that *probably* male babies will grow up to be homosexual men. It doesn’t work with female babies.

Then, if people want sex selective abortion, PP tells them that the *homosexual* male fetus is a girl, so they will decide to abort it.

Of course it *sounds* outrageous. But homosexuals are so paranoid that they will believe that the other San Franciscans, and their city council, actually *hate* homosexuals and want to gradually eliminate them.


14 posted on 09/10/2014 11:25:11 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: wagglebee

So let me get this straight (not a term used much in the Bay Area). They want to condone the most egregious form of sexism to avoid being seen as racist?


15 posted on 09/10/2014 2:28:13 PM PDT by Bo1988
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To: wagglebee

Just as the leftists in Rotherham sacrificed girls on the alter of political correctness, so do the leftists in San Francisco.

The funny thing is that you know 2 years ago these SF lefties were outraged at “binders full of women” and the GOP’s “war on women.”

“...false and harmful racial stereotypes” is left-speak for “well-documented facts that happen to conflict with my left-wing assumptions.”


16 posted on 09/10/2014 6:23:20 PM PDT by feralcat
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And look at what has happened in China. There are now no women to marry.


17 posted on 09/10/2014 8:37:37 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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