Sweden now allows sex-based abortions

Sweden is now allowing abortions based upon the sex of the baby. Abortion in and of itself is ghastly, but aborting a baby simply because he or she isn’t the right sex is depraved. Of course, we all know which of the two sexes will be aborted more often than the other, don’t we? Amanda Carpenter brings us this information in her Hot Button feature at The Washington Times:

Swedish women will be permitted to abort their children based on the sex of the fetus, according to a ruling by Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare.

The ruling was spurred by a request from Kai Wedenberg, head of the clinic where a woman twice requested, and received, an abortion based on sex.

Mr. Wedenberg asked for clarification from health officials after a woman, who already had two girls, requested amniocentesis and to be told the sex of her unborn child. She found out she was pregnant with another girl and asked for an abortion six days later.

The woman then became pregnant again, returned to the clinic and asked for another amniocentesis, which was not performed. Later, at her ultrasound, she asked the nurse to reveal the sex of her fetus, which was a girl. After learning this, the mother requested an abortion later that day and received it later that week.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air sadly notes that Sweden is nothing if not consistent:

At least Sweden remained consistent. Unlike the CRR, their decision reluctantly noted that the woman’s motivation was irrelevant if one accepts that someone can “choose” to end human life as a right. One wonders whether CRR will protest this decision in Sweden as they do in China, extending their intellectual confusion over the nature of “choice” as an absolute right.

Ed West at the UK Telegraph notes that this decision is putting liberals in quite a quandary.

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