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[–]endthewoo 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Why is a tiny handful of women saying that they don't want to incubate a male fetus such an affront ?

[–]emissch[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

because advocating (rather gleefully in some comments) about sex-based abortions is gross. We are against countries like China performing sex selective abortions on girls, why would it be anymore okay if this were done on boys? People can have these extremist views, the real issue for me is why the mods didn't manage these views better (unless they actually did and these screenshots were taken just before deletes--im hoping this is the case).

[–]endthewoo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you are not comparing like scenarios:

A1: woman is pregnant, wants to grow the baby, continues with pregnancy

A2: woman is pregnant doesn't want baby, aborts

B1: woman is pregnant, doesn't want to grow the baby, forced to continue pregnancy against her will

B2: woman is pregnant does want baby, forced to abort against her will

My perspective is that scenarios A are fine, scenarios B (which includes the forced abortions in China and India for example) are not.

Your perspective seems to be a version of "every sperm is sacred", ie "every male fetus is sacred", and you are upset about the fact of a tiny handful of women merely speculating about aborting an unwanted male embryo (which is vanishingly rare to non-existent in practice, and in reality any woman really yearning for a child but completely unable to raise a male (again tiny tiny minorty) would likely avoid pregnancy altogether and foster or adopt a girl instead).