# Pro-Choicers: Abortion For Child's Sexuality **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 21, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171 "2011-04-21T02:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/1 "2011-04-21T02:38:41Z")
If (hypotheically) it became possible to detect the “homosexual” gene before birth, would pro-choicers of this board tolerate fetuses being aborted _solely_ for that reason? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/2 "2011-04-21T02:41:14Z")
I think it would be an asshole-ish reason to abort a fetus, but I’d still support the right of the woman to make her own choices. Is this a trick question? -XT ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/3 "2011-04-21T02:42:40Z")
I think a person should have the right to abort their fetus for that reason. I also think they’d be an absolute shitheel for doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/4 "2011-04-21T02:43:09Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I think it would be an asshole-ish reason to abort a fetus, but I’d still support the right of the woman to make her own choices. > > Is this a trick question? > > -XT No, just a difficult one for pro-choicers at least. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/5 "2011-04-21T02:43:39Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > If (hypotheically) it became possible to detect the “homosexual” gene before birth, would pro-choicers of this board tolerate fetuses being aborted _solely_ for that reason? Do you know what “pro-choice” means? I think I need to hear your definition to make sure we are answering the question you are actually asking. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/6 "2011-04-21T02:44:47Z")
[QUOTE=Qin Shi Huangdi] No, just a difficult one for pro-choicers at least. [/QUOTE] I’m pro-choice…rabidly so actually…and it’s actually a very easy question to answer IMHO. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/7 "2011-04-21T02:45:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Do you know what “pro-choice” means? I think I need to hear your definition to make sure we are answering the question you are actually asking. People who support legalized abortion at the decision of the mother’. ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/8 "2011-04-21T02:45:25Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > No, just a difficult one for pro-choicers at least. How is it difficult? ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/9 "2011-04-21T02:45:32Z")
Yup. That’s her prerogative. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/10 "2011-04-21T02:45:56Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > No, just a difficult one for pro-choicers at least. Not really - just one with an unfortunate consequence. And not to fight the hypothetical, there may be traits correlated to homosexuality but there is no gay gene. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/11 "2011-04-21T02:49:33Z")
I don’t believe in the nanny state. The government should not undertake the policing of the morality of its citizens. Our government is big enough already… That said, what a crappy reason for an abortion, I would definitely think that the people that made this decision are assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/12 "2011-04-21T02:59:21Z")
I would tolerate fetuses aborted for any reason, because it beats those fetuses being aborted in a back-alley and the mother bleeding to death in her own home. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/13 "2011-04-21T03:03:56Z")
Certainly. Or if they intended to abort straight fetuses until they got a gay one. Or for that matter, because they needed a new ball for a game of Fetusball. It’s not my business to force them to give birth. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/14 "2011-04-21T03:05:02Z")
Uh-oh! Curtis is trying to catch us in a difficult predicament! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/15 "2011-04-21T03:07:22Z")
How is that a difficult question ? A woman has the right to choose abortion for any reason whatsoever, up to and including “because conception happened on a Tuesday”. Her life, her body, her decision, fucked up as it may be. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/16 "2011-04-21T03:08:22Z")
[QUOTE=Qin Shi Huangdi] People who support legalized abortion at the decision of the mother’. [/QUOTE] Then I can’t really see how you think this would be a dilemma for ‘pro-choicers’. It’s all about the CHOICE. Either a woman has the right to make a choice, regardless of her motives or reasons, or she doesn’t. I can’t see ANY pro-choice person really having a problem with answering the question. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/17 "2011-04-21T03:10:41Z")
Subject to the same restrictions I’d place on any abortion\*, I don’t see why that’s a problem. Dick, but allowed. > [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Uh-oh! Curtis is trying to catch us in a difficult predicament! Quick! Let’s make a gay baby! \*Viable foetus, mother not under the influence of mind altering substances at time of consent to abort, foetus does not possess Jimmy Page gene. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/18 "2011-04-21T03:23:23Z")
Yeah, I don’t care why someone wants an abortion. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/19 "2011-04-21T03:27:08Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > Uh-oh! Curtis is trying to catch us in a difficult predicament! > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Subject to the same restrictions I’d place on any abortion\*, I don’t see why that’s a problem. Dick, but allowed. > > Quick! Let’s make a gay baby! Or a _Rosemary’s Baby_! Is it OK to abort the AntiChrist?! And will the doctor catch on fire if you try? Or just turn gay? (because we all know homosexuality is Of The Devil) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171/20 "2011-04-21T03:38:15Z")
Not a difficult question at all. Yes, I’d “tolerate” it. If it was a friend of mine, I’d even drive her to the clinic and hold her hand if she needed me to. I’d think it was a shitty reason, and I’d probably not maintain a friendship with her for much longer, honestly, but I’d still help her out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choicers-abortion-for-childs-sexuality/579171.md?page=2)