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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
It's really this simple.

It doesnt matter if the baby is white, black, green, gay, straight, deformed, perfect, Christ, the anti-Christ. In the end. It's the womans choice.
 
Navy Pride said:
I have said this before but it is worth repeating........I think unnecessary abortions (abortions where the mothers life is not endangered) are the most barbaric act one human being can perform on another and the people that have these abortions and the butcher abortion doctors that perform them will someday have to answer to their maker for those barbaric acts.....

May God bless the innocent unborn in the womb...........
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Strangle enough I agree with you. I wouldn't express it quite that way, but I agree.
 
Felicity said:
Hope you're feeling better soon...and before you post, check over the agenda laced slant of the information so you do not appear as biased and misinformed as the misguded revisionist 1069.
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Thank you Felicity and doughgirl for your concern. I'm doing better, though I realized that in my haste, I closed my browser without bookmarking my research. Oh well...

I had a nice long post started. And as I continued to research I found so much contradictory and interesting information that it became almost impossible to sift through it and make a somewhat coherant post. What I have discovered is this:

Abortion has existed since about 500 BC.

The Catholic Church has never allowed abortion, per se, but has identified it to be not homocide at certain times in history.

The 'personhood' debate has been going on for more than 1500 years, and has been the key component of this debate, even in the church.

Much information is 'spun' by both sides, so in order to get a clear picture of what is real, I must seek out primary sources; since these are often translated from Greek or Latin, they are tedious to go through.

This stuff makes my head swim. But, since my function in an aboriton debate is really about learning, it's interesting seeing things from both sides. Once I compile my research, I'll try to compose it into a readable post. For now...sleep. :yawn:
 
This is actually a fascinating poll. I said yes. To me, no matter what the reason is--if someone chooses to NOT go through with a pregnancy, that is that person's preogorative. This is what pro-choice is all about.
 
BodiSatva said:
Any person that would Abort due to the projected Sexual Preference of the child should not be a parent in the first place...
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Sorry for the necromancy-- I haven't looked at this thread for awhile.

As someone who intends to become a parent at some point, I want my hypothetical children to have the best possible life as I understand it. That means, among other things, that I want them to have best possible genetic traits so that they do not begin their lives already at a disadvantage. I will use any means at my disposal to ensure this.

Hopefully, by the time that my children will reach puberty, homosexuality will not carry the stigma that it does today. However, even without the vast social disapproval-- which I do not think will lessen considerably by then-- homosexuals are still disadvantaged by a smaller pool of sexual partners and considerable inconvenience related to reproduction.

If there were something I could do-- without harming them-- to ensure that my children did not bear such a burden, of course I would do it. Since they are not my children until they are born and named-- and I am named their father-- then aborting fetuses with this trait accomplishes that goal.

I wish the technology were better. There are traits I am far more concerned about than homosexuality that I would like to protect my children from.

Of course, I do not think homosexuality is genetic. My suspicion is that it is caused by prenatal hormone changes-- and I do not know if it even could be detected prenatally.
 
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would vote to abort a gay baby. They will surely join me in hell. I have it on good sources that even though, I am a christian, I will go to hell for not supporting Bush the Dum Dum.:2wave:

How do you tell a gay baby?

1. They are born with blue tattoo around their belly button.

2. They have little green horns, on their heads.

3. They have green blood

4. Right wing fake christians think it would be fun kill a baby?

5. that Baby, cried funny, kill it,,,, it must be gay.

what is the answer? Statistically gay parents very seldom produce gay babies, naturally or when they adopt, and this has been studied a lot privately and by the fed.
 
I am shocked by the results of this poll that 15 people say its alright to abort a gay childis outrageous.....Shame on you people.........
 
Navy Pride said:
I am shocked by the results of this poll that 15 people say its alright to abort a gay childis outrageous.....Shame on you people.........
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Well, it's not exactly a nuanced, scientific poll. Half of those answering yes could simply be saying that it's okay to abort a fetus, irrelevant of the fact that it's gay or not. The other half could might have answered yes because they're virulently homophobic. There's no way to know for sure unless everybody who answered yes stepped up to explain their positions.
 
Adrian said:
Well, it's not exactly a nuanced, scientific poll. Half of those answering yes could simply be saying that it's okay to abort a fetus, irrelevant of the fact that it's gay or not. The other half could might have answered yes because they're virulently homophobic. There's no way to know for sure unless everybody who answered yes stepped up to explain their positions.
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Well that is not answering the question posed by the poll.....
 
Navy Pride said:
Well that is not answering the question posed by the poll.....
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The options of the poll are yes and no. People could pick either option for different reasons.
 
Goobieman said:
Assume for a moment that homosexuality is indeed genetic.
Assume for a moment that an unborn child is known to have that gene
Assume for a moment that the parents do not want to take the chance that their child will be a homosexual

It that sufficient reason to abort the unborn baby?



Someone please add a Yes/No poll
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Yes - it's none of my business why a couple or a single mother wants to abort their child.

(ancient bump - I couldn't help it.)
 
No, aborting a gay baby is still murdering a child.

Besides, if a genetic marker for homosexuality is discovered, then the road is open for a cure.
 
Scarecrow Akhbar said:
No, aborting a gay baby is still murdering a child.

Besides, if a genetic marker for homosexuality is discovered, then the road is open for a cure.
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yea, no kidding there are a lot of people that have no business breeding that should be cured of their heterosexuality :2razz:
 
Goobieman said:
Assume for a moment that homosexuality is indeed genetic.
Assume for a moment that an unborn child is known to have that gene
Assume for a moment that the parents do not want to take the chance that their child will be a homosexual

It that sufficient reason to abort the unborn baby?



Someone please add a Yes/No poll
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Of course not. Though it's my overall opinion of killing unborn children.
 
Navy Pride said:
I am shocked by the results of this poll that 15 people say its alright to abort a gay childis outrageous.....Shame on you people.........
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I guess it's only okay to discriminate against them AFTER they're born.
 
I'm pretty shocked that people think it's ok to abort someone just because they may turn out to be gay.

I wouldn't have thought it possible to see 22 people agreeing on genocide for gays.
 
windovervocalcords said:
I'm pretty shocked that people think it's ok to abort someone just because they may turn out to be gay.

I wouldn't have thought it possible to see 22 people agreeing on genocide for gays.
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If people honestly think abortion to be an elective sort of process, then they can't really say it's not OK. If you can choose to get rid of your baby for whatever reason (which is the attitude of many "pro-choice" people), then the baby being gay is the same as not having money or not wanting the responsibility or anything like that. I would find it quite contradictory in fact if the majority of pro-choice people came out against aborting gay babies.
 
Ikari said:
If people honestly think abortion to be an elective sort of process, then they can't really say it's not OK. If you can choose to get rid of your baby for whatever reason (which is the attitude of many "pro-choice" people), then the baby being gay is the same as not having money or not wanting the responsibility or anything like that. I would find it quite contradictory in fact if the majority of pro-choice people came out against aborting gay babies.
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The same could be said about those who are against abortion. If you are against abortion then the baby hypothetically having a gay gene is not a sufficient reason to kill a baby.
 
jamesrage said:
The same could be said about those who are against abortion. If you are against abortion then the baby hypothetically having a gay gene is not a sufficient reason to kill a baby.
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Indeed true. And why I said it's not ok to abort a baby just because it could be gay.
 
Goobieman said:
Assume for a moment that homosexuality is indeed genetic.
Assume for a moment that an unborn child is known to have that gene
Assume for a moment that the parents do not want to take the chance that their child will be a homosexual

It that sufficient reason to abort the unborn baby?
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Yes.

I may disagree with aborting a child for that reason, and I may look down upon the parents for doing it, but I support their right to abort for that reason or any other (or no reason at all for that matter).
 
Korimyr the Rat said:
Sorry for the necromancy-- I haven't looked at this thread for awhile.

As someone who intends to become a parent at some point, I want my hypothetical children to have the best possible life as I understand it. That means, among other things, that I want them to have best possible genetic traits so that they do not begin their lives already at a disadvantage. I will use any means at my disposal to ensure this.

Hopefully, by the time that my children will reach puberty, homosexuality will not carry the stigma that it does today. However, even without the vast social disapproval-- which I do not think will lessen considerably by then-- homosexuals are still disadvantaged by a smaller pool of sexual partners and considerable inconvenience related to reproduction.

If there were something I could do-- without harming them-- to ensure that my children did not bear such a burden, of course I would do it. Since they are not my children until they are born and named-- and I am named their father-- then aborting fetuses with this trait accomplishes that goal.

I wish the technology were better. There are traits I am far more concerned about than homosexuality that I would like to protect my children from.

Of course, I do not think homosexuality is genetic. My suspicion is that it is caused by prenatal hormone changes-- and I do not know if it even could be detected prenatally.
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How can you tell if a baby is gay?
 
Goobieman said:
Assume for a moment that homosexuality is indeed genetic.
Assume for a moment that an unborn child is known to have that gene
Assume for a moment that the parents do not want to take the chance that their child will be a homosexual

It that sufficient reason to abort the unborn baby?



Someone please add a Yes/No poll
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it's legal.
 
SpooK said:
I am pro-life and I dont ever think a baby should be aborted unless the mother's health is in danger. However, I am curious to see the responses of all these pro-choicers who say a mother should be able to have an abortion no matter what for anything (and if not now, why not?). I wonder if that opinion will stay consistant.
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you can't equate the rule of law with my personal morality. for me, no, that would not be a sufficient reason. but however distasteful to me, it would be legal.
 
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