Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:04:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Re: Abortion for sex selectivity


Carrol wrote:

> To Jerry I can simply give the reply that Lisa Rogers gave him several
> years ago: In a Jar Daddio, In a Jar.

To my knowledge, Lisa never replied to me with that expression. Source
plus date please?

What is truly shocking, though, is that the above alleges that it is a
"reply" to the following that I wrote previously:

> Let's start with a fact: abortion *is* in some cases being used for sex
> selection. That is by no means an "empty" statement. It is certainly real
> enough in India where many bourgeois women are having abortions after
> ultrasound testing when it is determined that the sex of the fetus is
> (will be) female. Granted it is a fetus -- but, the decision to abort
> fetuses with female sex organs and bring fetuses with male sex organs to
> term is both a political and a moral issue. 

So I guess it is a matter of indifference to you whether there aren't
girls born? Do you also believe that gender-based infantcide isn't a
political question as well? Note that the reason abortion is preferred to
infantcide by some bourgeois families is that they -- unlike the poor in
less developed capitalist nations -- can afford ultrasound testing. 

Jerry



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