Kill a Baby Because She’s a Girl? You Can in Sweden!
Filed under News, Revolution & Justice on May 23rd, 2009 by Marcus FrenchIn Sweden, babies can be aborted simply because they are a gender the mother doesn’t want. According to The Local:
Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television.
The Local reported in February that a woman from Eskilstuna in southern Sweden had twice had abortions after finding out the gender of the child.
The woman, who already had two daughters, requested an amniocentesis in order to allay concerns about possible chromosome abnormalities. At the same time, she also asked to know the foetus’s gender.
Doctors at Mälaren Hospital expressed concern and asked Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) to draw up guidelines on how to handle requests in the future in which they “feel pressured to examine the foetus’s gender” without having a medically compelling reason to do so.
The board has now responded that such requests and thus abortions can not be refused and that it is not possible to deny a woman an abortion up to the 18th week of pregnancy, even if the foetus’s gender is the basis for the request.
Shocking? Yes. The inevitable result of “pro-choice” laws? Yes as well. But then, is killing a baby because it is unwanted or inconvenient (for any reason), as is the case in 98% of abortions in the U.S., really any better?
Tags: abortion, gender, law, sweden
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That’s shocking.
I think Sweden has a big problem with their attitude to women. I can’t be certain though. I saw a Swedish film last night called ‘Millenium’ - that was about the vicious attitude of Swedish men towards women. The story obviously wasn’t true but perhaps there was truth behind the attitude.
What’s amazing is that this is “shocking” to so many people and yet abortion in general fails to move them. Why is killing a child because it’s an unwanted gender any more shocking than killing a child because they are an unwanted responsibility?
It’s amazing how we justify our actions and yet our inbuilt conscience cannot help but cry out.
As a European, this doesn’t shock me at all. It doesn’t matter what the reason is why you want an abortion. You can easily arrange one, without any problems. Some females will make up a reason, like the gender. But the truth is, that they just don’t want a baby. Just like any other abortion. The reason doesn’t really matter to them.