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Is it OK to abort a gay baby?

Gay baby

  • Yes

    Votes: 35 45.5%

  • No

    Votes: 42 54.5%
  • Total voters
    77
windovervocalcords said:
If you're going to abort gay babies, then its genocide of gays. It's a final solution. Too bad. I can think of plenty of prospective childless parents who would be happy to raise a gay child or any child.
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A couple aborting ONE baby is NOT genocide - it is an abortion. A single, selective abortion for their personal reasons.
Genocide is the extermination of a large number of peoples from a race/gender/culture (etc etc).

If it's a parent's personal, private CHOICE then it is in no way genocide.

Maybe biased or homophobic - maybe even moraly wrong in this particular case - but it's definitely not genocide.
 
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Tucker Case said:
So you think abortion is murder/killing a human?
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I don't think it's murder. I don't think it's motivated by hatred, malice jealousy or greed the way that murder is. It is very negative, and IMO it is motivated by ignorance.

Some people believe consciousness spirit only enters the fetus close to the time of birth or at birth. Obviously, I disagree.
 
Since all gay babies are going to hell, one should abort them as soon as possible to spare them an eternity of being tortured by a loving God.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
A couple aborting ONE baby is NOT genocide - it is an abortion. A single, selective abortion for their personal reasons.
Genocide is the extermination of a large number of peoples from a race/gender/culture (etc etc).

If it's a parent's personal, private CHOICE then it is in no way genocide.

Maybe biased or homophobic - maybe even moraly wrong in this particular case - but it's definitely not genocide.
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genocide: systematic killing of a racial or cultural group


A pattern of allowing abortion because of the gender of the child--female for example, is genocide of females. Same can be said for killing the fetus because of hatred toward disbility. If someone is aborting the fetus because it is gay, and there is a state sponsored approval of abortion for that purpose then it is genocide if the abortions are done in masse under those circumstances, most or all gay fetuses aborted because they are gay.

It is killing and the motivation is hatred of the group to which the fetuses belong--gender, sexual identity, disability etc.
 
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Aunt Spiker said:
A couple aborting ONE baby is NOT genocide - it is an abortion. A single, selective abortion for their personal reasons.
Genocide is the extermination of a large number of peoples from a race/gender/culture (etc etc).

If it's a parent's personal, private CHOICE then it is in no way genocide.

Maybe biased or homophobic - maybe even moraly wrong in this particular case - but it's definitely not genocide.
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If it becomes an accepted or encouraged social practice to abort potentially gay children, then yes, it is understandably viewed as a genocide or cleansing. The same would be true if it were red headed babies, pidgeon toe babies, etc.

Genocide may not be "technically" applicable but the meaning is well understood by those wishing to have a discussion rather than bog themselves down in pissing contests over semantic minutiae.
 
Ikari said:
Who are you to dictate a woman's body? If she doesn't want a gay child, why should she be forced against her will to have a gay child?
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Doctors and people have ethics for a reason no sane person would or should go thru with this kind of disgusting behavior. I am pro choice, but its a disgusting reason to do so, I know a lot of people who would love to adopt the child. If any one, did this I would think she is credibly insane to dictate what she wants to do with her own body.
 
I'm in favor of keeping abortion legal because I remember when it was illegal in all but a couple of states. Women died of infection and bled to death in back alley and self induced abortions at that time and made other terrible decisions like suicide due to the stigma of being unwed and pregnant.

That said, it was culturally unacceptable at that time for women to be unwed mothers. Nowadays, the culture is more accepting of single parenting--(although there still remains a strong bias in favor of two parent child rearing) and an assumption that a single parent is incapable of raising emotionally healthy kids).
 
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windovervocalcords said:
genocide: systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

A pattern of allowing abortion because of the gender of the child--female for example, is genocide of females. Same can be said for killing the fetus because of hatred toward disbility. If someone is aborting the fetus because it is gay, and there is a state sponsored approval of abortion for that purpose then it is genocide if the abortions are done in masse under those circumstances, most or all gay fetuses aborted because they are gay.

It is killing and the motivation is hatred of the group to which the fetuses belong--gender, sexual identity, disability etc.
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jallman said:
If it becomes an accepted or encouraged social practice to abort potentially gay children, then yes, it is understandably viewed as a genocide or cleansing. The same would be true if it were red headed babies, pidgeon toe babies, etc.

Genocide may not be "technically" applicable but the meaning is well understood by those wishing to have a discussion rather than bog themselves down in pissing contests over semantic minutiae.
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:shrug: If everyone by the thousands were aborting babies because they were gay (presuming that being 'gay' is a biological or genetic trait - which I don't believe it is - but that's aside the OP's point) then, yeah, it would be genocide - but I don't see it that way for a single couple who might do it for those reasons.

If someone killed me because I was white - would that make their act of murder an act of genocide? No - not unless they were systematicaly killing many white people with the intent of quelling the population.
 
Personally I don't like abortion.

However I do recognize the womans right to abort their child. Regardless of circumstances. I will stand up for that right. It's her body. She can do what she wants with it. She can choose to live a symbiotic life for 9 months or she can decide that the fetus is a parasite and get rid of it like any other parasite. Because factually that fetus cannot live without the woman. Until such time as it can live without the woman, outside her body, then it can be considered as nothing less than a symbiont/parasite.

Techically though I guess the appropriate term is parasite since a symbiont gives something in return for "feeding" off the host. A parasite just takes.
 
Why on earth would we ever abort a happy baby?:confused:
 
Here's my take. I am color-blind. That is a genetic disorder that can be tested for. I think it would should be legal to abort a fetus because it is going to be color-blind.

I also think it would be despicable to do so, so I wouldn't call it "OK".

That's the same exact view I have regarding aborting fetuses that were gay.

Should it be legal? Sure.

Is it despicable? Defnitely
 
Jackboot said:
Why on earth would we ever abort a happy baby?:confused:
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:rofl

Cause it's too damn happy.

It must be a sad baby to fit in with our culture - so we can then infuse it with drugs which simulate or temporarily spike happiness.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
:shrug: If everyone by the thousands were aborting babies because they were gay (presuming that being 'gay' is a biological or genetic trait - which I don't believe it is - but that's aside the OP's point) then, yeah, it would be genocide - but I don't see it that way for a single couple who might do it for those reasons.

If someone killed me because I was white - would that make their act of murder an act of genocide? No - not unless they were systematicaly killing many white people with the intent of quelling the population.
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True. I think Wind was just going a step further and applying it as a "practice" which does seem to be what the OP was implying.
 
Tucker Case said:
Here's my take. I am color-blind. That is a genetic disorder that can be tested for. I think it would should be legal to abort a fetus because it is going to be color-blind.

I also think it would be despicable to do so, so I wouldn't call it "OK".

That's the same exact view I have regarding aborting fetuses that were gay.

Should it be legal? Sure.

Is it despicable? Defnitely
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If it becomes a government policy to retrict abortions except in cases when the fetus is gay or disabled or female then that would move the abortions into a gencide category.

We don't have that kind of policy now, but if the anti-abortion crowd had a choice we would.

Some of the same folks that are anti-abortion are homophobic too.
 
windovervocalcords said:
If it becomes a government policy to retrict abortions except in cases when the fetus is gay or disabled or female then that would move the abortions into a gencide category.

We don't have that kind of policy now, but if the anti-abortion crowd had a choice we would.

Some of the same folks that are anti-abortion are homophobic too.
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Funny - I'm pro abortion, and pro gay-rights :shrug: LOL!

It makes sense, somehow. *giggle*
 
I am still shocked at the high number of people who think it is ok to abort gay children.

25 and the opposition is only 31.
 
windovervocalcords said:
I am still shocked at the high number of people who think it is ok to abort gay children.

25 and the opposition is only 31.
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A lot of us 'pro' are purely so because of general abortion views, not case by case views.
 
I am just shocked that this thread will be having it's third birthday later this month. Time does fly.
 
jallman said:
I am just shocked that this thread will be having it's third birthday later this month. Time does fly.
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LOL

I bumped it in a search for something completely unrelated - I couldn't resist! all appologies, nirvana style.
 
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