Sex-selective abortion

The capability to select a child’s sex prenatally raises some moral questions: Even though we can do this, should we? Is it ethical? I am assuredly pro-choice, but I am not supportive of sex-selective abortions and I believe that they should be banned. I do not think that people should have the ability to select for a child’s sex because in most cases it is done for vanity purposes, such as “We already have a son, so we want a daughter this time to ‘balance the family.’” I believe that conception and pregnancy and childbirth are natural processes and that it is unethical to use technology to interfere in this way. I think that allowing sex-selective abortions would create a phenomenon of “designer babies,” where people are selecting for the…

Jorawar and Yeung theorize that arguments by lawmakers and anti-abortion lobbyists in favor of sex-selective abortion bans in the U.S., rooted in racial stereotypes and justified by information from Asian countries, are “wolves in sheeps clothing.” This means that such arguments are said to be based in the desire to combat women’s oppression and promote equality, but they are actually harmful and insidious methods used by anti-abortionists, promoting racial stereotypes regarding Asian American…

Brenna Kinser 09/19/2016 PHIL-2306 Dr. Griffin Nelson Relativism and Sex-Selective Abortion It is widely known that in countries like China, there is a limit on how many children you can have. In order to pass on the family name, it is necessary to produce a male child. According to The Population Research Institute, there are millions of girls that are missing around the world and a large part of that reason is because they have been aborted solely on the fact that they are female…

Korean sex ratio • In 2007, Korean announce to be the only country that able to bring a normal sex ratio that restore equal birth total for boy and girl. • Monica Das Gupta, the demographer that was hired by the World Bank, and she was sent to Korean to do research about Korean succession on balance sex ratio. • In 2009, she reports Korean succession that it’s because the economic development and new gender-sensitive policies is what weaken sexist value. • Also report that because of the…

The objective of this assessment is to identify a social problem in the international context, determine the people affected, possible causes of the problem and who may benefit. After the assessment of the problem, a plan for advocacy can be designed to address the issue. As an international social worker, working for a non-government agency, my organization would address female infanticide, specifically in India. Infanticide and feticide encompasses the murder of newborn children or sex…

control population growth has led to many issues. The government 's One Child Policy was the cause of the many issues within the population such as decline in birth rates, unequal sex ratios, gender imbalance, and population growth. In China’s efforts to control population growth, sex selective abortion cases have increased. Consider the 2011 murder of a seven month old baby. In Beijing, a woman was seven months pregnant with her second child when several people entered her home and took her…

Because of the lack of value that practices like female infanticide due to son preference in countries like India, female children in orphanages are less likely to be adopted. Because of this, it is for more likely for unwanted female children to become lost in the system. Female children are far less likely to find a home, because they would be seen as a financial burden to a large number of families that could potentially adopt them. Also, because females are seen as having such little value…

Abortion Viewed as Genocide Selective sex and race abortion leads to racism, feminism, and genocide It is speculated that in the United States sex- and race selective abortion is practiced. In his article by Citro et al describes how legislators noted a high index of abortion among African American and Latina women. Yet more, in her article Denbow Jennifer Abortion as Genocide describes “the most recent House bill briefly demonstrated that a Black baby is five times as likely to be aborted as a…

Main Points In the article “Unnatural Selection” by Mara Hvistendahl, she discussed the issue of males being deprived of females by sex-selective abortions and also the creation of a world filled with male violence and sexual predation. She talks about having more males and a decline in marriages which can lead to young delinquents and increased crime. She discusses the increasing rates of male births compared to female births in Asia. The main idea of the article is the abortion of female…

Modern technology has advanced in such a way that has allowed for safe abortions to be carried out. An abortion is the premature termination of a fetus before it is born, but is an immense debate in the world of medical ethics. There is no clear cut answer as to which side of the argument is correct, as the debate dives into many grey philosophical areas, such as what is considered a person and how much autonomy should play a role in such a controversial decision. In modern China and India, the…