Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!amd!intelca!oliveb!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: Re: Selecting the sex... Message-ID: <724@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 13:04:04 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.724 Posted: Tue Oct 7 13:04:04 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Oct-86 04:25:20 EDT Reply-To: hplabs!Gloger.es@Xerox.COM Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 19 Approved: taylor@hplabs Reference: <693@hplabsc.UUCP> This article is from Paul Gloger and was received on Mon Oct 6 22:36:24 1986 I believe that I recall an article some time this year in the Los Angeles Times, reporting that Koreans are apparently engaging heavily in fetal sex detection and selective abortion, sufficiently so to produce a significant increase in the proportion of male to female children being born. (I cannot resist noting that I am highly amused by all the mindlessly egalitarian outrage over such behavior. I do not know whether abortion is ethical or unethical, but I am very sure that it is no more or less ethical if done for sexual selection than otherwise. Go on, flame me!) Paul Gloger [WARNING: we will *NOT* discuss abortion in this forum!! There are other, very heavily trafficked, forums for that sort of stuff...so I will reject any followups that discuss that aspect of this posting. -- Dave]