Not just not the health risk of having an abortion, but this is the real danger of abortion to women:
Over the past three decades the world has come to witness an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sex-selective feticide, implemented through the practice of surgical abortion with the assistance of information gained through prenatal gender determination technology. All around the world, the victims of this new practice are overwhelmingly female — in fact, almost universally female. The practice has become so ruthlessly routine in many contemporary societies that it has impacted their very population structures, warping the balance between male and female births and consequently skewing the sex ratios for the rising generation toward a biologically unnatural excess of males. This still-growing international predilection for sex-selective abortion is by now evident in the demographic contours of dozens of countries around the globe — and it is sufficiently severe that it has come to alter the overall sex ratio at birth of the entire planet, resulting in millions upon millions of new “missing baby girls” each year. In terms of its sheer toll in human numbers, sex-selective abortion has assumed a scale tantamount to a global war against baby girls.
And perhaps this is why the New Age Theocrats are pushing for acceptance of homosexuality. What are all these excess boys going to do with their sex drive when the numbers of girls are unnaturally cut? And you say this could never happen in America?
theocon fits you, stevie.
Posted by: larry kurtz | March 08, 2012 at 02:18 PM
Why do you need to label everyone Larry? Your commentary often ads nothing to the SD Blogosphere.
Steve you make a great point. I appreciate your site.
Posted by: mike | March 08, 2012 at 07:18 PM
often is often enough, mikey.
Posted by: larry kurtz | March 08, 2012 at 08:44 PM
OK, so you took info about practices in China, where having a son is culturally important. (and, for the record, I think that the idea is stupid and horrible; if you want to have a child, the gender should be the last thing you worry about) And you made it, or the author did, seem somehow universal. And ignored the data that shows that sex-determinative abortion is non-existant here (and almost everywhere else), but decided that it was because of what happens in China.
And then tied it to homosexuality here? Really?
(BTW-it's Sam, the guy in RI who hasn't been around lately. How'er ya doin'?)
Posted by: Pothole | March 19, 2012 at 07:02 PM