Shooting the Stork :Is it cool to abort your baby based on sex? A new First World dilemma!

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SHOCKING NEWS: WOMEN (AND WITTY VERBOSE TEENS NAMED AFTER ALASKAN CITIES) WHO ARE PREGGERS CAN FIND OUT THE SEX OF THEIR BABEH BY BUYING A KIT.

Hooray! Right? Now you can decide whether to name your baby Apple or Brooklyn months before you even show your baby bump. Now as more and more consumers have been getting their swollen hands on gender detecttin kits there’s has been greater media scrunity about the sex-selective abortions in Tha Third World.

As we’ve known for a while those of us with vaginas have less labor market value in developing countries.

So what if the tests tells you’re going to squeeze out a boy and lo and behold your infant has a cooter betwixt her legs? What if you live the lush and litigious First World? Well, you sue the shit out of some one.

According to the LA times:”More than 100 women have filed a lawsuit against Acu-Gen and its owner, Chang-ning Wang, that is pending in federal court. At least one customer has been questioned by the FBI.” Wang (heh) has repeatedly declined to discuss the scientific validity of the test. So the suing is just none-sense, if you carry the kid in your body for 9 months and pop it out the last thing that should be on your mind is refund. Buyer beware and all that shit. The real question at hand, is whether its cool, in first world country, abort a baby based on sex. The question has been less taboo in places like China and India where the amount of males in a household and can sink or save a family.

And here in the US the gender selection taboo is slowly being broken.

But there is a difference here. In a country such as ours, where the gender ratio in the household isn’t as closely linked to financial stability, it comes down to a question of want.

Whether or not you want a boy or a girl or not? Of course this brings up all sorts of thorny nuanced issues, but ultimately I believe that if you don’t want the kid for whatever reason, then don’t have it. Whether its for financial or emotional reasons or the fact that you had your cold heart set on naming your new son Preston, you don’t want it, don’t have it. Its your vag, live how you please.

But what do you think?

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