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That got me thinking Zan.
We don't call if foeticide here in Canada, we call it every woman's right. We can't legislate against it, because in order to say 'you can't abort based on gender' then we have negated the whole notion that no woman should have to carry a pregnancy she doesn't want. So we enable a fresh wave of ultrasound aided gender selection.
Hopefully as cultures mesh and mingle and youth are born into Canadian culture, this will die down and fade away. Hopefully. If not, we may have one gender skewed mess on our hands in a couple generations.
We don't call if foeticide here in Canada, we call it every woman's right. We can't legislate against it, because in order to say 'you can't abort based on gender' then we have negated the whole notion that no woman should have to carry a pregnancy she doesn't want. So we enable a fresh wave of ultrasound aided gender selection.
Hopefully as cultures mesh and mingle and youth are born into Canadian culture, this will die down and fade away. Hopefully. If not, we may have one gender skewed mess on our hands in a couple generations.
There are ways around that though too Zzarchov. Even in our culture it was (and is for many still) common custom for the girl's family to pay for a wedding. How do you tackle it as prostitution? How would you ever prove that the house my friend's rich dad bought for her and her husband as a wedding present wasn't a form of payment for 'taking her off his hands'? Because it wasn't, but, if her skin were a different color perhaps people would assume it was.
When will people learn there's consequences to messing with the natural order of things?
Here's an interesting article that discusses how these cultural attitudes are affecting demographics - not just in their countries of origin, but here at home also.
Selecting gender - a demographic time bomb
Here's an interesting article that discusses how these cultural attitudes are affecting demographics - not just in their countries of origin, but here at home also.
Selecting gender - a demographic time bomb
Do we really need to be concerned about gender ratios anymore anyway? Given the modern divorce rates, rates of homosexuality, modern attitudes towards bisexuality, and current shouts and hollers for population control, is a mismatched gender ratio the crisis they make it out to be (from a purely scientific point of view)?
Not yet, but if I look ahead and imagine what this behaviour might yeild in the next 50 - 100 years, then yes... the perspective on that question may look different I think.
Somehow it smacks of something else too - the fact that people are making selections on who shall and shall not live based on gender, leads me to believe that this could become at some time a mere prelude to bigger and [not] better things to come. It seems to me that people can and will justify the most baffling choices with the weakest rationale imaginable. So this starts with gender selection... where does it go from here... and it does go somewhere from here... we seem to be incapable of not taking things to places they shouldn't go. Just because we can doesn't mean we should... but we will.
Somehow it smacks of something else too - the fact that people are making selections on who shall and shall not live based on gender, leads me to believe that this could become at some time a mere prelude to bigger and [not] better things to come. It seems to me that people can and will justify the most baffling choices with the weakest rationale imaginable. So this starts with gender selection... where does it go from here... and it does go somewhere from here... we seem to be incapable of not taking things to places they shouldn't go. Just because we can doesn't mean we should... but we will.