About the implications of acceptance of homosexuality and other related variations

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

TheLivingShadow said:

1. Suppose that the science of the brain and genes advances far enough that one can with a very high degree of accuracy predict the sexual orientation of a child still on the womb. Is abortion of this child on the grounds that the child has a particular sexual orientation (can be any sex orientation) an immoral thing? Is it moral? Along the same lines, if there were some sort of cure against homosexuality, asexuality, or transgender tendency, should it be administered? Should it be enforced? This last question is only applicable in the hypothetical sense that the LGBTA population has grown to a very high percentage of the population, otherwise it is nonsense.

I don't see why it would be any more or less immoral than abortion for any other reason. That is, if you think abortion is a valid way to exercise more control over reproductive choices, then it should be fine to abort a pregnancy based on the desire to have a particular sort of "designer" child. Why should some things be left up to fate and not others?

This is something I've pondered recently in a somewhat different context when some feminists were decrying how sex selective abortions devalue girls. Well, first of all, in an economic sense it kind of does just the opposite as the demand for marriageable women eventually outstrips demand. But while there are obvious huge implications for a society that has more men than women, it's pretty tough to argue that selective abortions devalue certain types of babies while maintaining that abortion doesn't devalue life itself.

That depends, however. Much of the pro-choice lobby still feels iffy on the actual matter of abortions, and see them more as a tool of last resort for an underpriveleged woman who cannot support more children, who are not eager to play fast and loose with potential human life but know that it's an important option to prevent long-term human misery, and these people would feel that gender-selective abortions would be trivializing this matter. So too, in that line of thought, would sexuality-selective abortions.