With the development of technology, sex-selection abortion become possible around us. Sex-selection abortion is used to prevent the birth of a child of a undesired sex. Currently the victims of these abortions are overwhelmingly female. This preference is based on both traditions and economic realities.
With the help of modern technology, it seems that sex-selection abortion happens in most of countries all over the world. This sex-selection technology is based on a new blood test. It is reliable to determine whether the child is a boy. In most asian countries, Ultrasound is one of the most popular method used to decide a Sex-selection abortion. Actually, Sex-selection abortion may cause a lot of serious issues like gender imbalance and domestic violence.
Sex-selection abortion is prenatal discrimination based on gender. It is unfair to girls and boys and girls should be treated equally. Based on my personally knowledge, sex-selection abortion must violates The Fourteenth Amendment and must be unconstitutional. Many people think that Sex-selection abortion stem from Asia. As a Chinese student, I will say it is true and I experienced several Sex-selection abortion issues in my country. In China, especially in relative poor areas, male children are widely preferred over females. In United States, "In Americans of Chinese, Indian and Korean descent families, if the first child was a girl, it was more likely that a second child would be a boy. If the first two children were girls, it was even more likely that a third child would be male," reported the Times. I think it is unnecessary and stupid because boys and girls are the same and they all have some ability to integrate into society.
Most Americans object Sex-selection abortion. It is good that over 86 percent of Americans support a ban on sex-selection abortion. Sex-selection abortion is morally and culturally devastating. How can you kill a unborn child just because she is a girl? People who support Sex-selection abortion should reconsider their "trandition" reason. With the development of human society, people should have a new understanding about tranditions, abandon useless and wrong ones, improve rational ones. Sex-selection abortion is absolutely inhuman and immoral, it should be banned and treated as illegal all over the world. Our culture and society need both man and woman and any bias will break the balance and destory culture structure. I agree with Andrea Tone that technological and political change moves faster than we expect, and often the outcomes are not what we expect. But only the change that based on respect about equality of men and women can promote the social progress.
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