Sex Selection and Canards
Sex selection is a telling canard in the pro-life argument since it's clear that the better the quality of life for a girl, the more valued she is and the more she is wanted. Certainly when pro-lifers argue about the sex discrimination of abortion against females here, they aren't talking about any people I know and they definitely aren't talking about Feminists. I know lots of new parents at the moment (the last woman I knew to have an abortion was back in university - and she had to go to New York for it), several of whom are happy with two girls and don't plan to have any more children. It's not about boy/girl with any of them, actually, so I have to wonder if that's something unique to the pro-life crowd, that males are preferable to females, or rather that God prefers a male soul over a female soul because the female soul is worth less.
SOMEOBODY, afterall, is adopting a goodly number of unwanted Chinese girls.
But, since pro-lifers value males over females, maybe that's why they assume the rest of us do, too. And if they're saying it's a cultural thing, well, so what? These people will learn when their son has to marry outside his culture, unless he's gay and can easily find a cultural match within it, and when they must take second place to the parents of their son's wife when she has children, that Canada is quite unlike the old country. Besides, since when do we adapt our way of life to suit the sexism of new immigrants?
Oh yeah, we've got a New Conservative government running things now.
