Choosing to eliminate unwanted daughters

Jewish World Review ^ | April 7, 2008 | Jeff Jacoby

[Caleb1411]

For what kind of feminist would it be who could contemplate the use of abortion to eliminate ever-greater numbers of girls, and not cry out in horror?

You know that answer, rhema: the kind of soulless NOW/NARAL harpies who affirm every abortion, no matter that minority and female babies are disproportionately exterminated.

[heartwood]

The tossed coin has no memory. A FAIR coin will come up heads 50/50 no matter how many heads have already come up in a row.

Likewise, a woman’s body will not give the Y sperm an advantage because X sperm have won the race in the past.

If a couple had had ten girls in a row, I would bet on them having another, because that run of girls may indicate a physiological condition favoring the conception or successful pregnancy of a girl.

Two girls in a row isn’t enough to give any weight to that hypothesis, but it does suggest that don’t have a condition strongly favoring a boy. I’d still bet on the boy though with an odds ratio of 1.05/1.

[Mercat]

actually I think that the odds of having the same gender is higher the second time around. something to do with the pH of the whole thing.