if a genetic "marker" for homosexuality were discovered and couples chose to to abort fetuses carrying the marker?
I'll turn the question around, also: how would religious conservative, strict pro-life types feel?
I'm asking morally, and legally, what you would do.
Thanks.
2007-03-20 07:33:05 · 12 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
That's still up to the individual mother, whether she wants to remain pregnant. Just as a mother can choose to terminate a pregnancy based on gender, IQ or hair color (if that could be determined genetically early enough).
I strongly disapprove of abortion in general, and abortion based on discrimination in particular. But my vote doesn't count. I'm not the person who is pregnant.
The legal standard is that the person who is pregnant gets to decide if she remains pregnant, prior to the point of independent viability. And one can only hope she is making that choice for the right reasons. But whether I agree with her choice or not, I'm not going to take that choice away from her.
2007-03-20 07:36:56 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
i'm vegetarian and in choose of all those, yet am very against capital punishment. long tale short, I choose animals plenty greater desirable than human beings. Abortion isn't human suffering because fetuses are no longer alive. what's greater, the mum's high quality of life is plenty greater significant than a fetus. Capital punishment is barbaric-merely like eating meat-and quite some circumstances harmless persons are killed. Assisted suicide is the humane component of do if somebody is suffering and does not choose to stay a tortured life to any extent further. same with euthanasia, inspite of the undeniable fact that it is going to easily be used to end suffering.
2016-12-18 18:51:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legally speaking, such an action would be unconcionable, but legal under Roe v.Wade. In the end, it would be up to the mother of the child to choose. I am personally, however, opposed to such abortions. I look at something like that as using abortion to choose the sex or hair color of a child. Having a homosexual child would be far from the worst case scenario.
Abortion should not be a tool of conveniece or vanity, but rather a medical procedure used when there are no other options.
2007-03-20 07:41:55 · answer #3 · answered by phoenixbard2004 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in terminating a pregnancy unless it is a case of rape or something is wrong with the baby (like death before it is born). I see nothing wrong with homosexuality and the fact that someone would abort a baby just because they knew it would be homosexual is like aborting a baby because it will have blue eyes. It's sick and wrong.
2007-03-20 07:49:20 · answer #4 · answered by Sam K 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hitchiefhe...is right, that sounds an awful lot like the female abortions happening in some nations - I had to do a big report on that in school - creepy stuff.
2007-03-20 07:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by daisyk 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is no humans "right" to choose life or death whether they are homosexual, ugly, handicapped, the child of rape or otherwise, not because I'm left wing or right wing but because I'm a human, when we give ourselves the "right" to take human life before birth where will it end, will it become our right to kill because of illness or because of whatever, it's just not our right to choose life or death, the right to choose is to choose sex or not, and if you didn't choose sex (rape) and you got pregnant then I still believe it's not your choice it sucks it really does that it happened but sometimes in life we have to live with the consequences of someone elses bad decisions.
2007-03-20 08:10:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would only be comfortable with abortion if a genetic marker were determined for libtoiditis. Any public policy that encourages Liberals to kill their yet unborn offspring is a good thing for America.
2007-03-20 07:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by mr_methane_gasman 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I would not do anything. It is not my choice to make whether someone else gives birth or not. It would be unfortunate, but embryos and fetuses are not born yet; therefore, they are not American citizens yet and are not protected under our Constitution.
2007-03-20 07:41:04 · answer #8 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
They already do this in India...they have ultrasound to determine gender, and kill baby girls. This is why iot is important to fight for women's rights. Women are worthless in that country, and can cost the parents much if they cannot marry her off. I also think we need to fight for gays to be looked at as human beings, so parents don't think it is 'bad' to have a gay child. So pretty much fighting for human rights would remove the reasoning behind killing off certain groups of people.
2007-03-20 07:44:21 · answer #9 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Thank God there is no such thing!
And I'd continue not voting, as always.
Go ahead and have issues with that if you like, people. I can't please everybody, and I ain't gonna try.
And yes, I'm strict pro-life and do not agree with the choices homosexuals are making with their bodies.
2007-03-20 07:40:15 · answer #10 · answered by skunkytruck 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋