The thought that someone would kill their own child because they were the “wrong” sex is appalling. More appalling is that it is not just a thought, but a destructive reality.
Reports from around the world indicate that this is an issue far greater than many realize. Lifesite news reported, “There is a growing body of evidence that sex-selective abortions are already occurring in the United Kingdom.”
Britain’s largest abortion provider, The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), even says on its website that sex selective abortions are not illegal. While the Department of Health and Social Care disputes their claim, research indicates that around four hundred babies were killed in sex selective abortions between 2017 and 2021.
Specifically, unborn baby girls are hit the hardest. In most cases, due to cultural preference toward having boys, unborn baby girls are aborted at a disproportionate rate, and offenders are rarely, if ever, prosecuted.
However, while historically sex-selective abortions have primarily impacted baby girls, a new trend has emerged on social media directed at baby boys. Within certain subsects of the online feminist community, it has become popular to say that if they become pregnant it will be “a girl or an abortion.” Images of celebratory “it’s a boy!” balloons have been circulated with boy scratched out and replaced by “aborted.”
A few comments on a video with over 86,000 likes said:
“Imagine raising your oppressor, absolutely not.”
“I’m not contributing to the patriarchy.”
“I say this sometimes and sometimes people think I’m joking but I am 100% serious.”
The list could go on as that one video has more than 1,700 comments most of which are celebrating the idea of killing unborn boys in the name of feminism. Sadly, the video and comments mentioned are just one example of a larger online trend.
Sex selective abortions are in style among the most extreme abortion supporters. We have often heard that “any reason for abortion is a valid reason.” Of course, we know that could not be further from the truth.
Perhaps most interesting about sex-selective abortions is that the vast majority (often polled around 77%) of people oppose the practice including those who support abortion. But if abortion advocates are correct and the unborn is not a human being, why would it matter? If there is no harm done by dismembering the unborn child in the womb, then why would one justification for the action be any better or worse than another?
These extreme cases, like sex-selective abortion, force the abortion advocate into a difficult position. They must either admit that there IS something about the unborn child which deserves protection, or they must accept even the most extreme justifications for abortion. The unborn is either a human being or it is not.
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