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A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 12:13 pm
For the purposes of this hypothetical, imagine a not-to-distant future when the popular claim that homosexuals are born that way is proven correct. We find the "gay gene" and can detect it in unborn babies. Otherwise, society is mostly the same as today. Gays are still fighting for certain rights and are thought as sinful by a large percentage of the population.
You or your wife/girlfriend/whatever is pregnant and the baby will be born homosexual. Do you move forward with the pregnancy or abort the fetus?
I'm curious how atheists, who are typically pro-choice and gay rights, and how theists, who are typically pro-life and think homosexuality is a sin, will answer this.
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Move forward, obviously...
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 12:20 pm
(March 27, 2012 at 12:13 pm)Grundy Wrote: For the purposes of this hypothetical, imagine a not-to-distant future when the popular claim that homosexuals are born that way is proven correct. We find the "gay gene" and can detect it in unborn babies. Otherwise, society is mostly the same as today. Gays are still fighting for certain rights and are thought as sinful by a large percentage of the population.
You or your wife/girlfriend/whatever is pregnant and the baby will be born homosexual. Do you move forward with the pregnancy or abort the fetus?
I'm curious how atheists, who are typically pro-choice and gay rights, and how theists, who are typically pro-life and think homosexuality is a sin, will answer this.
I think we'd be happy as long as it was healthy. We'd also be very surprised considering her tubes are tied
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 12:25 pm
I'm an atheist, pro-life, and don't care whether homosexuality is natural or not. I don't have a right over their sex life any more than they have a right over mine.
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 12:29 pm
There isn't a single valid reason to abort a child based on sexual preference (although a trickier question would be if they found a paedophilia gene.. that would make for more difficult moral question).
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 12:45 pm
The only reason I can think of for aborting over sexual preference (as long as you don't believe being gay is a sin) is to spare the child a harder life. It's easier to be gay now than it used to be, but it still isn't as easy as being straight.
Would you abort over any other difficulty for the kid? Down syndrome? A tendency towards addiction?
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Seeing as people with Down syndrome can live perfectly fulfilling lives, and addiction can be overcome, no, I wouldn't.
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Odd how not a single theist has chimed in on this.
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RE: A gay fetus killing hypothetical
March 27, 2012 at 1:14 pm
it would be none of my business.
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