Yes If I Could I Would. I would jump on that plane tomorrow and I would be there in a flash. The debate has been going on for years – is it right to choose the sex of your baby?
Is it right to want a boy after having a family of all girls?
Is it right to want a girl after having a family of all boys?
Yes its a Women’s Right. Its her body and if she wants to have another baby then why shouldn’t she be able to choose.
Then it leads to the debate about the recent abortion of a baby girl by a family in Victoria (Australia).
They found out they were carrying a girl and they wanted a boy. SO yes they went ahead with the abortion. The baby was over the 20 week mark.
NOW I really do think that is so very wrong. So very wrong….why didn’t they have the baby and adopt it out? Why did they wait so long before going ahead with the abortion?
I am not going to get into the full-on debate about the right’s and wrong’s of ending a life….that’s not a decision I could comment on. Nor something I would ever want to face.
Or better still why not have the ability to chose the baby sex before letting it grow and that way it would be still living because they were carrying what they wanted in their heart.
It opens up a huge can of worms – a lot of human rights are coming into both debates.
I was reading this today in The Sunday Telegraph ::
BUT
Live a day in my shoes – I always wanted six children…..something I wanted since I was younger. But in my ideal world it was three boys and three girls.
So in my real world I have five boys – and believe me I know I am so very fortunate to have five healthy sons who are my everything. And I adore them all (even when they drive me nuts)
But what happens when they grow older?
What happens when they get married and have their own family?
Who will they spend more time with? Normally its the bride’s family they will want to spend the most important times with…the Christmas Days, the Easter Holidays, The Birthdays of each Grandchild etc.
It will be her family they turn to.
And the saying that I always think about is ::
A son is a Son until he takes a wife.
A daughter is a Daughter for life.
No the saying is not going to apply to all of my boys – I can see some of my boys being close to us for ever. But I still have something missing within. I still have the ache to have a sweet baby girl in my arms. It is something that I can’t explain, and not something you will understand. After all how can you understand what I feel when you are not me?
You can judge me and call me selfish (or playing with nature) or I am sure many other choice names. But its not something I am ashamed of…and not something I am ever going to say “Sorry” for.
So If I Could I Would. I would be planning a trip to Thailand. And I would be celebrating big time….you would hear my shout of Joy with the news that I was carrying a girl.
After all its my body, and if I have carried five healthy babies to full term, while can’t I carry one more that was a pink one instead of a blue one?
Did you know that about 5-6 years ago it was legal in Australia to chose the sex of your baby, because of having too many of the one sex in a family?
But it became illegal?
Crazy its illegal to chose the sex of our babies to be, yet in some states of Australia its legal to have abortions up to the 24 week pregnant mark….
Reading this today in The Sunday Telegraph and I was so very sick with what it will mean for future babies ::
This Is One Scary World ~
and what will happen for other babies to be now that one family has followed through on deciding the babies life?
PLEASE tell me how that is right?
Sure opens up a can of worms, right?
What Would You Do If You Could?
Would You Chose The Sex of Your Baby to Be?
Cheers
Lisa
New Life on the Road.
Better to choose the sex of a child than abort an unwanted sexed child at over twenty weeks!
budget jan recently posted..West Point Sunset Magnetic Island
I feel the same Jan 🙂
I’m all for choosing BUT I would prefer if we start with giving couples only 1 go. They can only choose once but after they’ve had more than two kids of the same sex IN A ROW. If the child whose sex they got to choose is fine then they shouldn’t need to choose the next child; they got the sex they wanted.
As for abortion, I’m on the fence.
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Hi Rhonda,
I like the idea of being able to chose – after all I have five gorgeous boys, and they dearly would love a little sister. But its not right to abort a baby because its the wrong sex. I guess we all have different views, and we all think differently.
Its a case of what works for one family wont work for another. I cant explain the deep feeling inside that I have because we only have sons, but its something that I think about every single day.
Cheers
Lisa
I don.t see a problem with choosing the sex of a baby before it is planted into your womb but I do have a problem aborting a perfect healthy baby just because its not the ideal sex.
Glad that I am not the only one who thinks its ok to chose the sex of a baby before its carried to full term!
I too have a problem with aborting a perfect healthy baby because its not the right sex!
Oh what a huge questions. I have three girls and, if I wanted to go again, wouldn’t want to choose. But I know things are different for different people. I cannot fathom abortion. So many people want to adopt babies – why not just make the easier. To me abortion past 20 weeks is out right murder. But again I know people will disagree with me and that is their right.
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Its a big can of worms question!! I so could go again if I was able to have a choice – I feel so strongly that its my right to be able to have a little sweet baby girl if I could (hubby has been to the doctors so its out of the question)
Mind you I so do not think that abortion for over 20 weeks is the right thing……I too feel like its murder. But again that is a personal choice, one I am very glad that I never ever have to make!
so heart-breaking xx
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It sure is heartbreaking, and not something that is an easy solution for anyone xxx