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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 11:32 AM
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Poll question: If scientists ID'd a gay gene, and your fetus had it, would you abort?
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This comes from a column by Jimmy Jeff (discussed in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=221&topic_id=15299&mesg_id=15299), in which he wonders if pro-choice activists would suddenly do an about-face if a gay gene were ID'd, because most parents wouldn't bring a pregnancy to term if the fetus was likely to turn out gay.

I think this is a stupid argument, personally, and for me, aborting a fetus simply because it carries a gay gene makes about as much sense as aborting a fetus found to be left-handed, farsighted, freckle-skinned or with any other outside-the-statistical-majority characteristic.

What's your take? (And I am using the term "I'd abort" to mean if the decision was yours alone, and not literally, especially if you're male. I know in the real world there's often -- and always, if you're the impregnator, not the pregnant one -- the partner to consider.)
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