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[b]Brauer told Reuters she believes doctors will eventually begin ordering women to abort disabled children, or refuse to treat them after birth.
"They'll force women to kill their children ... It will be like China. It's the next logical step," she told Reuters.[b/]
Man, what a funny guy. I could just imagine some doctor "ordering" a patient to have an abortion. At which point the patient would either laugh, or leave. Also, I'd like to see how long a doctor could keep his license for refusing to treat disabled children.
In addition, it's completely unreasonable to try to connect the infanticide of female babies in China to the US. Our society doesn't have a large value discrepancy between the sexes, so people wouldn't kill babies because they were of the undesirable sex. People might kill babies if they have too many of them, but I imagine that a parent would kill indiscriminently until the number of their offspring was equal to what they were willing or able to support. Now, if those parents who didn't want the babies had access to birth control, then maybe they would be saved the trouble of murdering their children and disposing of the bodies later. (Also, BC would save the government money on paying for maternity hospital bills or prosecution of baby-killers.)
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