Would you abort your child if scientists could determine if it were gay?

Question

U.S. experiments confirmed that 7 percent to 10 percent of rams are gay. Research suggests brain biology is involved. The advertised application is identification of gay or asexual rams, "thus eliminating their use for general breeding purposes." The feared application is identification of gay male fetuses, leading parents to abort them or alter their orientation through hormone treatment in the womb. Some conservative Christian leaders have already endorsed this idea.

Answer 1

NO Nothing and i will say it again NOTHING would make me abort my Child.

Answer 2

First I'm going to make a very bad joke. It has been said that a heterosexual man who cannot find a woman to enter into a relationship with will pick a sheep because sheep remind him of a woman. Ok if that be the case than a gay man might want to enter into a relationship with a gay ram ha ha ha. Isn't that funny?

Ok. My religion Judaism feels that its a great sin to abort a fetus. A fetus is a human being with a soul. To do so is a form of murder. Now this business about using hormones to treat an allegedly gay fetus. This would be an illegal and unethical medical procedure that would not be practiced in the USA. This sort of thing could only be done in the back alleys of some border Mexican town and even there hopefully not.

My religion does have a solution for the problem that you presented. First, allow the child to be born without using some unnatural chemical treatment to alter that child. Than let the child grow up with loving parents, a good education, and develop in that person a love of G-d, and constantly developing his character in a way consistent with Judaism. If the person follows the pillars of Judaism; Love, Charity, and Doing Good Deeds than that man will grow and develop and probably marry a kind and gentle woman. His "gayness" will express itself not when they are intimate with each other, but as a loving gentle soul with his wife and children.

I hope that answers your question. Oh just kidding about the sheep.

Answer 3

I don't believe that homosexuality is purely genetic. There has long been a debate between nature and nurture for a variety of traits, such as homosexuality. More and more we are finding out that it is the interaction of genes (nature) with environment (nurture) which spurn a certain trait. I belive it is a combination of genetic disposition and environment or experiences which lead to homosexuality. Therefore, I would not abort a child who was proven to have a genetic disposition to homosexuality. Even if you were to be able to say your child is going to be homosexuality, which is absolutely impossible to guarantee no matter what, I would never abort a child of mine. I'm not one of those big Pro-Life Christians who stand outside abortion clinics picketing. In fact, I'm not even completely Pro-Life. I am somewhere between Pro-Choice (support a woman's choice to choose but would not do it themselves) and Pro-Life (no abortions). I am not Pro-Abortion (pro-choice in all situations and would have an abortion) I do know that. I also have a difficult time believing "some conservative Christian leaders" have endorsed the idea of toying with nature in the womb.

Answer 4

Why does the world think that Homosexuality is a horrible thing? Its just a way of life, for someone else. Sure gay people should not go around telling the world they are gay, thats just asking for trouble in this horrible country. But just like the Black Rights, it should not be an big issue, gay people are still people, they just have sex differnt. You would rather embrace a prostitute over a gay man just because she/he is strait and the other is not? Homophobes should learn to accept that men love men, women love women. And gays should learn when to keep the sex life at home and outside. No one should talk about their personal life outside of home.

Answer 5

Of course not.
Not only because having homosexual sex, hetero sex, or any other kind is a choice.
You may not be able to choose how you feel, but you can surely choose what you do.
Also, because a good friend of ours was told by doctors that her baby had spina bifida and would be born a cripple.
Many people prayed, and the baby was born 2 months later perfect, without any problems at all.
So medicine is nowhere near an exact science, and we'd best to not believe everything we're told by human doctors, who make mistakes that kill people every day.

Answer 6

The rams choose to be gay. They do it to rebel against their parents and defy God. That brain biology is just the evil thoughts going round in their sheep minds. The should be cast out of the flock.

Answer 7

The only thing scientists determined was that a person is not born gay. Aboration is wrong regardless of the reason. Babies are a gift from God and should be valued as such.

Answer 8

NO! NO! Did I say no? My Mom told me she would love me no matter what I did or what sex I wanted to marry and I plan to tell my children that same thing. My Mom's love is unconditional and so is mine.

It is hard for me to believe any mother would have an abortion for that reason. Of course, just a few decades ago homosexuality was considered a disease.

Answer 9

First off, that is an irrelevant question to Christianity, I am Christian but listen, your child is gay, so what, you can change his style of life, you are Christian aren't you???
I'm not saying be God or something, and doctors aren't always right you know??!!

Answer 10

oooh, thats a Christian/Republican toughy there. On one hand, if hes gay that's against what republicans and christians believe, but so is abortion. I gues its like a guy fighting a girl, its a lose lose situation.

Answer 11

No, no and heck no. It's horribly sad that anyone would abort a child just because they would be gay. That's the most horrendous thing I've ever heard.

I love my child unconditionally and would welcome a child no matter what gender or sexual preference they have.