Letters to the Editor
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Why exactly is this a bad thing?
We're all pro-choice, right? If women want to do what they feel is best for them and for their potential female children (who will likely be mistreated and abused throughout their lives) and abort, who are we to say it's an unsavory practice? Why not spare their daughters the hardships of growing up female in a place where girls and women are routinely undernourished, undereducated, and undervalued? Or, in the case of the wealthy who have embraced the procedure, is it really so awful that the sex of a child determines whether or not it is wanted? Isn't the point to be able to end unwanted pregnancies regardless of the reason? I don't see anything wrong with preventing children from being born into a world where they will not be well-received. I have to wonder if people would be so up-in-arms if women were aborting their male fetuses in favor of increasing the number of daughters in a family.