Why not for gender selection?

If you want to get pro-choicers wound up, just bring up gender-selection abortions. I recommend doing this right about the time that they accuse you of being anti-women. Just turn the tables and ask them how they feel about that type of abortion.

They'll typically go in to squirm or ballistic mode, because they know that any answer will expose their inconsistency. If they say that gender selection abortions are acceptable, then they have blessed the ultimate misogyny. Virtually all of them destroy innocent female human beings. If they say that gender selection abortions are not acceptable, then they have to explain why it is OK to destroy the unborn for other reasons but not for gender selection. They'll have to acknowledge the humanity of the unborn, which will undermine virtually all of their arguments. And they hate doing that.

If it is morally neutral to destroy a human being for being unwanted, too expensive, potentially gay, having Down Syndrome, or whatever, why would it be even 1% immoral if the motive were her "wrong" gender?

So go ahead and try this reasoning. If nothing else, you've annihilated their "you're anti-women" argument, because you would support bans on gender selection abortions.

You can also point that well over 90% of workers and volunteers at Crisis Pregnancy Centers are women and that the most pro-abortion sub-group is young, single men. (Go figure!).

Guest Blogger, Neil