http://familyfoundation.org/2011/06/where-are-all-the-girls-the-consequences-of-choice/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 22 May 2013 15:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://familyfoundation.org/2011/06/where-are-all-the-girls-the-consequences-of-choice/#comment-5240 The Pro Choice Crisis? « The Family Foundation Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:32:32 +0000 http://familyfoundation.org/?p=10931#comment-5240 [...] Not long ago we reported on sex selective abortions. While most associate this problem with India or China’s one-child policy (something Joe Biden “understands,” see Lisa Graas at LiveAction Blog), the use of sex selection is alive and well in the U.S (see New York Times). Unlike the UK and other places where such a practice has been banned, here it is perfectly legal. It can be done through abortion or one can simply fly to Las Vegas and pay $20,000 to choose an embryo by gender to implant through in vitro fertilization. Even if one doesn’t choose to implant a specific sex but implants multiple embryos, one can engage in “twin reduction.” This is the process whereby IVF clients implant multiple embryos and when they thrive in the womb, the “parents” then choose one embryo to eliminate through abortion. Given two healthy babies, sex selection can be the basis for that decision. After all, according to Gallup, 45 percent of respondents would choose a boy if they could have only one child, a number nearly double those choosing a girl (27 percent cited no preference). [...]

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