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  • Critics: Gay-gene bill about politics, not rights (abortion fears on fetus sexual orientation)

    02/24/2005 3:04:40 PM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 19 replies · 1,290+ views
    PressHerald ^ | February 24, 2005 | Mark Peters
    AUGUSTA — A conservative lawmaker is again drawing criticism for a bill he says is about gay rights but some of his colleagues say is about political posturing. State Rep. Brian Duprey, R-Hampden, wants the Legislature to forbid a woman from ending a pregnancy based on the projected sexual orientation of a fetus. He said the bill looks into the future in case scientists find what he described as a "homosexual gene." "I have heard from women who told me that if they found out that they were carrying a child with the gay gene, then they would abort. I...