I’m firmly pro-choice but...

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....I’m not ok with gender selection abortion ie girls.

But if I’m pro-choice then I shouldn’t be interested in motives at all... argh! I don’t know how to reconcile this with myself.

Labour announced today they’d stop early gender blood tests which prompted this post.

The bottom line with regard to abortion is that every child is a wanted child, and women have autonomy to make that decision. Do I have misgivings about sex selective abortion? Of course, when it's female foetuses which are aborted, to the extent that in a few places, the demographics have skewed heavily toward males for the first time ever. Are my misgivings strong enough to overrule my belief in bodily autonomy for women? Nope, what needs to happen is that women in the cultures that solely value male children need to be liberated from that oppression.

All this talk of banning sex selective abortion is basically a sop so we don't have to work for the liberation of those women.