VANCOUVER, August 15, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new home test kit has one BC official “horrified” that couples may learn the sex of their children before birth. The horror that parents may be able to choose gender-specific clothes and nursery furnishings seems to have gripped an official of the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons.
This “expert” in medical ethics, said, “I’m greatly concerned about that because I think gender selection is immoral.” Peter Seland, deputy registrar of ethics for the College continued, “I believe that that opinion is shared by the college.”
The Gender Mentor Home DNA Gender Testing Kit, sold over the Internet by the Illinois-based Pregnancy Store, allows couples to know the sex of their child. The kit, however, does not require abortion, promote abortion, suggest abortion or even hint at abortion as the outcome of discovering the sex of an unborn child. The probability that it will be used as a home sex-selection kit is strong but the fact of knowing a child’s sex before birth is a morally neutral proposition.
The BC College of Physicians and Surgeons, on the other hand, supports, promotes and suggests that abortion is a morally neutral “choice” to which every woman has an indisputable right for any reason or no reason.
In a bizarre nod to the contradictory values of the feminist abortion doctrine, the killing of a child causes no ethical horror whatever. In BC, a woman is not allowed to be told the sex of her child until after 24 weeks, the age at which it becomes more difficult to convince a doctor to abort. Physicians who disclose gender early face criticism and College sanctions.
In the weird world of abortion ethics, abortion for gender selection is a no-no, but abortion for no reason at all is just fine.
Read coverage in the Vancouver Sun:
https://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=1735ec8d-56cc-4510-89e8-c62c480e97b6
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