Comments on: Aborting Children with Gender Dysphoria?

By: Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Smith — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 08:40:00 +0000

We constantly hear the argument that homosexuality is genetic. Given the additional argument that a woman’s right to abort is absolute, I can’t see how there can be an legal objection to aborting homosexual fetuses either. (Accepting the above two principles, of course.)
Seriously, I would be amazed if there were not some genetic basis for gender dysphoria. Every personality trait, good, bad, or indifferent, has some genetic component. The only question is how much?
Having read the Times article you linked to, I can only agree with the comment by “JN” on the same page:
“Genes are only part of the story, perhaps only a small part. Historical data going back to ancient Greece have shown male homosexuality as a percent of the population varying widely over time and cultures. Genes (and epigenetics) don’t change rapidly, but social fashion does. Most population traits are not exclusively nature-nurture, but a combo — for one person homosexuality, bisexualism, or transvitism may be nearly 100%, for another perhaps only a portion of the 30 variant genes help them to “lean” that way, and for some, it may be almost entirely fad. Example: at a leading university where I taught, there was a group of women who were pejoratively called LUGS = Lesbian Until Graduation. They didn’t have sex with men until getting married after graduation. The “real” Lesbians strongly disliked the LUGS. During the ten year fad, there were many, as a percentage of women enrolled, compared to the ten years before and even the decade after. 30 variant genes doesn’t explain all.”

By: Terrible Teddy

Terrible Teddy — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 10:13:00 +0000

‘all human life matters’, no . .it doesn’t . .Ivan Milat’s life does not matter, and the world would have been a far better place had that mutt been aborted, so the argument from that premise is obbly

By: high treason

high treason — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:30:00 +0000

Looks like a premature April fools joke. With all the plugging the LGBTQIA bullshit alphabet down kids’ throats , why not just abort the entire human race. Alas, this is what the ultra-green Nazis want.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:06:00 +0000

You’re drawing a false parallel between two very different things. For one thing, there are ways to treat and mitigate gender dysphoria. It doesn’t have to be a lifelong disabling condition.Your argument is kind of like saying “if there are prenatal tests for astigmatism, fetuses with astigmatism will be aborted”… Slippery slope and no real reason to think so.