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But I see this kind of decision differently--it's a matter of ethics. What is good for a society? Do you really not see any long-term problems with our entire species if everyone started aborting based on particular characteristics that they find personally and arbitrarily distasteful? Do you not at least see a demographic problem with the Chinese tending to abort female babies, for example?
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I thought I was addressing ethics. I've never heard of ethics being used to specify what is good for society. I thought it was just a personal scale of what is right and what is wrong. And to me, there's nothing wrong with aborting a child you do not want (for whatever reason). Realistically, the reason is just semantics.. you're still destroying the cells. Whether it's because of FAS, Downs, or "the time isn't right," the mother is still aborting, and that's fA-OK with me. Abort, abort, abort!
And even if I were to address it on a "societal" scale, I'm not sure how I see how having less and less people born with Downs Syndrome would be a bad thing. If the Chinese want to abort female babies, then so be it. We'll have less Chinese women. I'm not sure why that's a problem, just like I wouldn't have a problem with having more gay children, less white children, whatever. I cannot and will not ever be responsible for what is being born, and it seems pointless to say that it would be "bad" for society to have less OR more of any given characteristic.