Choices Have Consequences

From the AP we have this story from India:

Around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys, according to a study published online in The Lancet...

The study published by the London-based medical journal comes on the heels of a report last October by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which warned that infanticide or abortion was driving India towards a gender imbalance with alarming social consequences.

Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Pakistan and South Korea face similar problems, the UNFPA said.

This is really where the rubber meets the road for the pro-choice movement. After all, we're told that abortion is a private decision between a woman and her doctor. It is of no consequence to society and its none of our business, particularly if we can't get pregnant.

Yet, individual decisions add up. Liberals who tell us that we individually need to recycle should understand the idea that small individual actions have large societal consequences.

And what does the left say to something like what's going on in India? Its choice. Its the mother's right to choose. Yet, all these individual decisions according to the UNFPA are adding up to "alarming social consequences." If the left opposes it, it finds itself hypocrites. Or is wanting to look good in your wedding dress more valid than killing the child because its a girl?

Think of this story next time a liberal tells you abortion is about individual choice and remember that allowing the wrong choices can harm and even destroy a society.

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Perhaps the answer is..

beyond the problem. Why is abortion or selective abortion so prevalent in these countries? Ulitmately it is a combination of economic, social and political reasons that pushes these individuals to make drastic choices. And the sad truth is that in today's global economy, we are part of the cause. A mother in India can't afford 'cos she has no money.

And unless the rest of the world can somehow help them to alter their environment, we are really in no position to critique their choices. Surely no mother would want to kill her own child, but pushed by circumstances, what can she do?

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