[lbo-talk] So who decides which abortions are "abhorrent"?

[Nathan]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:00:40PM -0500, Shane Mage wrote:
> 
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 3:27 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> >Shane writes:
> >
> >" From a social point of view, in an (at present) grossly
> >overpopulated
> >country like India suffering from an (at present) grossly excessive
> >rate of population growth, female-selective abortion is by far and
> >away the most practical way by which the people, on their own, can
> >deal with that problem...
> >ratio).
> >adult males for the available females."
> 
> 
> >Well, uh, no.
> >The most practical way for the people to deal with the problem is
> >contraception.
> 
> The Gandhis tried compulsory male sterilization.  It exploded in
> their faces.  In the conditions of generalized poverty that prevail
> and will continue indefinitely to prevail for the great mass of
> Indians contraception is totally impractical.

This is a false equivalence.

Sterilization is a subset of contraceptive methods, not the sum total of
them. I may be wrong but from this argument I'm inferring a preference
for infanticide over contraception, not to mention shades of 1920s-style
bourgie population panic.

-- 
Nathan