Is Abortion as just as simple as a woman's right to choose?

Question

I just read a report that says that 7000 baby girls are aborted every day in India. This comes on the heels of a story I heard on the CBC that in Canada there are advertisements in east Indian papers in Vancouver and Toronto advertising ultrasound clinics which will tell the gender of a fetus immediately. An east Indian community advocate says that this information is being used to abort female fetuses and in fact there has been an unnatural ratio of female to male births in the lower mainland around Vanouver wich has a high "Indo-Canadian" population. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07072309.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/08/02/bc-femalefoeticide.html?ref=rss

Answer 1

The choices a woman makes about having and raising children is not simple, but it is hers. Women have always found ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies and they will continue to do so no matter what laws are passed. Where people want boys and there is no way to predict the sex before birth there is unusually high mortality rates for baby girls. Not every problem can be fixed by government and trying to make women have and care for children when the chose not to, is a hopeless task.

Answer 2

Yes, it is that simple and no it is not. Some cultures value girls and women much lower than they do males, even to the point of treating them as property instead of as humans. So it follows that the abortion rates for girls would be higher in those cultures.

Answer 3

Of course it is not as simple as a woman's right to choose. Killing babies never is.

It is really sad that they are doing this. What will happen when these little boys grow up and there are no women for them to marry.

Answer 4

So, what is your point? It is a woman's right to choose abortion. It doesn't matter if I disagree with her reasons for doing so. It is her body and her baby.

Answer 5

uh. . .no
its is very complicated
however let me simplify it for you with a quote
I notice all the people who are for abortion have already been born - RR