• invalid-0

    The proper response is to address the reasons why people are engaging in gender-selective abortion in the first place. If they don’t want a girl, then… why? Is it because a female is considered less valuable than a male? Because a female will eventually require a dowry payment? Because only a male can provide some semblance of a retirement plan in old age?

    Granted, I doubt the situation in Sweden is anywhere near as dire as it is in India, or China. And if the most common reason for gender-selective abortion is e.g. “Well, we have two boys already, and really want to have a girl…”—in other words, a non-systematic preference—then, well, it may not be ideal, but it’s less problematic from a reproductive-justice point of view than prohibiting the abortion in those circumstances.

    This is very much a situation that calls for “soft power,” rather than the “hard” variant. After all, at the end of the day, if a woman really wants an abortion, then she’ll get one regardless of what the law says.

  • invalid-0

    Why can’t PGD be used. Putting the ‘correct gender’ into the womb is surely better than aborting a fully formed human being.
    I’m not sure if PGD is legal in Sweden?? anyone else know?

  • progo35

    I’m sure it can, but I guess some couples still feel that they should abort fetuses that don’t meet their gender criterion after they didn’t use PGD.

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