Abortion of females

Submitted by Fay Voshell (United States), Mar 2, 2009 at 15:12

Here's a link to a famous photo from an issue of Life magazine in 1965. It is of an eighteen week old unborn baby still alive after a hysterotomy. It is legal in Sweden to abort up to eighteen weeks without any questions asked--so any horror at the fact girl infants are aborted is manufactured outrage, as a woman can abort for any reason whatsoever. The abortions up to eighteen weeks are free. Abortions after eighteen weeks are also readily available.

http://www.magazine.org/ASSETS/A07C6F6009E14018BB59300D85DD72BA/11.jpg

But Sweden's laws are very little different from US laws. Abortions up to 24 weeks are readily available for any reason, and some doctors will perform "partial birth" abortions on potentially viable infants up to birth. Just look up "Abortion" in your yellow pages and you will find clinics which will offer abortions up to 24 weeks without questions being asked.

I have often wondered why ardent feminists have been eerily silent about the carnage permitted against their own sex. I suspect they didn't think it through; that they didn't dream so many women wouldn't want girl babies and now they're stuck with fearing a "slippery slope" of events which would restrict abortion on demand.

And let's not suppose only Muslims abort girl babies because they desperately want sons. The fact of the matter is that India, which has a Hindu majority, has a thriving abortion industry which has eliminated by conservative estimate some ten million girls. Female infanticide is also common.

Fay Voshell

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