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Sex Selection: Nobody's Business? (Sex Selection Abortions among Asian Immigrants)
Slate ^ | June 15, 2009 | William Saletan

Posted on 06/16/2009 11:48:44 AM PDT by GOPGuide

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Researchers had expected sex selection among Asians to decline as they became Americans. But in today's New York Times, Sam Roberts reports:

Demographers say the statistical deviation among Asian-American families is significant, and they believe it reflects not only a preference for male children, but a growing tendency for these families to embrace sex-selection techniques, like in vitro fertilization and sperm sorting, or abortion. ... [A] number of experts expressed surprise to see evidence that the preference for sons among Asian-Americans has been so significantly carried over to this country.

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What about purveyors of sex selection? Roberts notes that at least one assisted reproduction provider, the Fertility Institutes, offers sex selection and "has unabashedly advertised its services in Indian- and Chinese-language newspapers in the United States." (The company has also promoted and withdrawn an offer to select embryos for "eye color, hair color and complexion.") This form of sex selection takes place when the offspring are tiny, dish-bound embryos, not fetuses. The clinic's medical director, Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, says the practice is "not harming anyone." Is he right? Should he be allowed to continue peddling sex selection (as he does in this video) to Asian-Americans? And if it's fine to advertise this service at the embryonic stage, why not at the fetal stage?

Absolutists on both sides need to think carefully. If you're pro-life, how far are you willing to go in regulating abortion? If you're pro-choice, how far are you willing to go in leaving it unregulated?

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; geneticscreening

1 posted on 06/16/2009 11:48:45 AM PDT by GOPGuide
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To: GOPGuide

girl baby number 10.
Boy baby grow up and provide for parents retirement.
Girl baby make baby and become dependent.
Make more babies and retire well. Make girl baby and work forever.

So N.O.W., how do ya like me NOW?


2 posted on 06/16/2009 11:51:24 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: GOPGuide

Another issue where feminists are notably absent.

Their silence is deafening.


3 posted on 06/16/2009 11:53:22 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Retired Greyhound

With friend who are pro-abotion, I bring up this issue and ask..so you also support sex selection abortion? They always say that it isn’t happen here in the US,,but this article and one in the NYT’s testify that it is happening in the US. Asian immigrants are having lots more boy babies than girls.


4 posted on 06/16/2009 12:16:51 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Oldexpat

I can fix this problem.

Institute a reverse dowry system and legalize polygamy in the USA. If the parents in Thailand, the Phillipines, Viet Nam, or China got $30,000 on their daughters’ wedding day to an American man...no more selective abortions.

Flame away ladies LOL!


5 posted on 06/16/2009 12:59:01 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: Oldexpat

A lot of abortion supporters find sex selection abortions abhorrent and even worse would be a hypothetical abortion of a baby with a “gay gene”. It’s hilarious when they’re values come into conflict.


6 posted on 06/16/2009 1:49:28 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

Their.


7 posted on 06/16/2009 1:53:02 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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