tinydancer
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Frankly I'm sick to death of the raging headlines and thread titles that attempt to portray Santorum as some crazy anti woman's rights candidate.
Because there are serious ethical concerns in the medical community with prenatal testing. And we do find eugenics in play here. Thank you Maggie Sanger.
But now we have female feticide.
This is one of these situations where the slippery slope was envisioned but everyone went "nah, that can't happen".
Abortions based on gender are on the rise here. For years it's just been a slaughter of female fetuses in Asia. Just a slaughter.
Now to our life in North America.
Canadian Doctors Suggestion to Delay Revealing Babys Sex Ignites Controversy over Feticide
by Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star
January 16th, 2012
Jyotika Hussain, 29, is seen playing with her daughter, Inaaya (8 months) in their Mississauga home. Jyotika wanted to find out the sex of her baby when she was pregnant to plan clothes and the nursery colours, but an ultra-sound technician either couldn't or wouldn't tell her the sex of the baby.
Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat female feticide the intentional abortion of female fetuses because of a preference for sons, the editor of the countrys top medical journal says.
Dr. Rajendra Kale says the problem of female feticide in Canada is relatively small compared to countries such as India and China where the practice happens by the millions. But, he adds, research has shown female feticide is undoubtedly happening in Canada and therefore rules should be put in place to stop the evil practice.
It is discrimination against women in its most extreme form, says Kale, whose controversial editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal sparked swift reaction from all corners of the medical community after its release Monday.
In greater Toronto there are signs that female feticide does occur to the point that some South Asian women claim some ultrasound technicians are already withholding the sex of a fetus.
There is enormous evidence in Canada that a segment of the South-Asian community prefers boys over girls, says Baldev Mutta, executive director of the Punjabi Community Health Services in Peel Region, which helps new immigrants, people with addiction issues and abused women.
There is no doubt that aborting female fetuses, because its a female fetus, happens in Canada too.
AND here's the kicker
Mutta says he has lost count of the young pregnant women who have come to the agency because they already have one or two daughters and their in-laws want them to check the gender of the fetus and if its a girl, to abort it.
They dont have a choice, says Mutta. If they dont do as told, they are threatened with divorce.
To Kale, a solution to female feticide is to postpone telling women the sex of a fetus until after 30 weeks pregnancy a point at which it is nearly impossible to have an unquestioned abortion. Currently, the sex of a fetus is usually revealed at around 18 or 19 weeks pregnancy.
He argues the rule would not impede a womans right to medical information about herself because finding out the sex of a fetus is not medically relevant. He also suggests the rule must apply to women of all ethnicities to prevent discrimination at the doctors office.
CGS*:*Canadian Doctors Suggestion to Delay Revealing Babys Sex Ignites Controversy over Feticide
Because there are serious ethical concerns in the medical community with prenatal testing. And we do find eugenics in play here. Thank you Maggie Sanger.
But now we have female feticide.
This is one of these situations where the slippery slope was envisioned but everyone went "nah, that can't happen".
Abortions based on gender are on the rise here. For years it's just been a slaughter of female fetuses in Asia. Just a slaughter.
Now to our life in North America.
Canadian Doctors Suggestion to Delay Revealing Babys Sex Ignites Controversy over Feticide
by Megan Ogilvie and Raveena Aulakh, Toronto Star
January 16th, 2012
Jyotika Hussain, 29, is seen playing with her daughter, Inaaya (8 months) in their Mississauga home. Jyotika wanted to find out the sex of her baby when she was pregnant to plan clothes and the nursery colours, but an ultra-sound technician either couldn't or wouldn't tell her the sex of the baby.
Health-care workers should not reveal the sex of a fetus to parents until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat female feticide the intentional abortion of female fetuses because of a preference for sons, the editor of the countrys top medical journal says.
Dr. Rajendra Kale says the problem of female feticide in Canada is relatively small compared to countries such as India and China where the practice happens by the millions. But, he adds, research has shown female feticide is undoubtedly happening in Canada and therefore rules should be put in place to stop the evil practice.
It is discrimination against women in its most extreme form, says Kale, whose controversial editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal sparked swift reaction from all corners of the medical community after its release Monday.
In greater Toronto there are signs that female feticide does occur to the point that some South Asian women claim some ultrasound technicians are already withholding the sex of a fetus.
There is enormous evidence in Canada that a segment of the South-Asian community prefers boys over girls, says Baldev Mutta, executive director of the Punjabi Community Health Services in Peel Region, which helps new immigrants, people with addiction issues and abused women.
There is no doubt that aborting female fetuses, because its a female fetus, happens in Canada too.
AND here's the kicker
Mutta says he has lost count of the young pregnant women who have come to the agency because they already have one or two daughters and their in-laws want them to check the gender of the fetus and if its a girl, to abort it.
They dont have a choice, says Mutta. If they dont do as told, they are threatened with divorce.
To Kale, a solution to female feticide is to postpone telling women the sex of a fetus until after 30 weeks pregnancy a point at which it is nearly impossible to have an unquestioned abortion. Currently, the sex of a fetus is usually revealed at around 18 or 19 weeks pregnancy.
He argues the rule would not impede a womans right to medical information about herself because finding out the sex of a fetus is not medically relevant. He also suggests the rule must apply to women of all ethnicities to prevent discrimination at the doctors office.
CGS*:*Canadian Doctors Suggestion to Delay Revealing Babys Sex Ignites Controversy over Feticide
