Strollerderby

Personally I think there's something wrong with someone who wants a specific boy or girl that much, but - if they really do want it that much, maybe it's better for them to have an abortion and try again rather than have, say, four unwanted baby girls before they finally have their wanted baby boy.

can you imagine the number of abortions that the octo-mom would have to endure if she had wanted eight boys, or eight girls?

Disgusting. Nothing like promoting gendsr-based discrimination before birth!

"Oh, darling, we wanted to have an only-child little boy like you SO bad that we aborted two female fetuses before you came along. Now you go on out there and respect women, you hear? There's a good boy..."

Okay, first off, "SEX", not "GENDER"? Why can't people understand this basic distinction?

This is unbelievable. Rather, I wish that it were unbelievable, but it's not. If a woman has "the right to choose", why doesn't she have the right to choose everything? I mean, good God, can you imagine the psychological burden of caring an unwanted fetus of unwanted sex? Horrifying!

I'm sure this does happen in the States and will become more common. Did you know that people come to the States just for sex-selective embryo implantation, as we have no guidelines, but their countries do? There's no move to regulate the fertility industry, so all you embryos? You're on your own.

But what if she was aborting the child because she knew a boy-child would have a horribly debilitating disease?  According to the original article, the mom requested genetic testing, and at the same time asked to find out the sex of the baby.  Apparently she proceeded to have an abortion, which the doctors felt (but did not know) was based upon the supposed sex of the fetus.  

As long as abortion is legal, there is no reason for anyone to know why the abortion is performed.

Really, that headline is misleading.  What the court ruled is that physicians can't refuse someone treatment just because they may not like their alleged reasons.  Like it or not, because people have the right to choose they sometimes make bad decisions (in somebody else's opinion). That's the way it is.  You can't be everyone's nanny.

If you believe abortion to be a perfectly acceptable thing to do to the miniature human inside you, then the reason is a non issue. To say one reason is "better" than another is ridiculous, save for imminent demise of the mother, as in an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy. There's no difference between "I wanted a girl instead of a boy" and "Next year would be better than now".

I had 4 boys before I finally got my 2 girls. I hope the above contributor was joking when she said something about a psychological burden. They were my children and my responsibility from the moment of conception. It's bad enough that some deny the responsibility to/for their child, but even worse to try to say that someone else is "worse" than they are for voluntarily aborting for a different reason.

Mom of 6:

I was definitely being over-the-top sarcastic with my comment about the "psychological burden" of carrying a child of unwanted sex. My point was that a woman's "right to choose" abortion is a pretty slippery slope down toward choosing to abort for reasons like sex, sexual orientation, eye color, etc. As soon as our society says that a woman has a right to choose, a whole host of issues that make abortion uglier than it already is are opened up. Like you, I believe that abortion should only be allowed in cases of danger to mother's life.

I pregnant with our third, having already had 2 boys. We may end up having as many as 6 kids anyway, but I'm hoping that I "get" my girl before numbers 4 and 5! =)

My immediate family (from my line) of 3 generations is only composed of 6 people.  Large families are no longer necessary if we want to preserve the human species.  Anyone contemplating more than "replacement" births is not doing anyone else any favors.

That said, I support pro-choice, but abortion used for frivolous reasons like gender is abhorrent.

This is sick and just wrong, aborting based on gender, what has our world come to, It's like saying oh, I just wanted another boy, and decided to have an abortion, since it was a girl, and it makes our world less interesting, its the beauty of nature that we don't get to decide the gender, well, I hope that this policy in Sweden eventually gets overturned, so immorally wrong, shouldn't every child get a chance at life, and how is our decision to decide whether they do or not?

Doctors can already fudge if they really want to--they can tell the people the baby is the sex they want - then they will have to live with it. Once they see it, hardly any would actually let the baby go to adoption.