IntelliGender on CNN....puh-lease!

misschippers · June 2009

https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/09/gender.prediction.test/index.html

MLOVER<3 · June 2009

Repost- can't see the link.

KRIST4N · June 2009

Yeah someone posted about that earlier but didnt include the article, thanks for the link. ?I can't believe that woman said she has 3 girls and wants a boy so she might terminate and try again....that is crazy!!!!! ?I hope people don't take it that seriously!

misschippers · June 2009

Hmm, I can see it. But then again, I'm new to this whole link thing. Here it is to copy and paste if you can't see it.

https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/09/gender.prediction.test/index.html

FLVintageBride · June 2009

KRIST4N:
Yeah someone posted about that earlier but didnt include the article, thanks for the link. I can't believe that woman said she has 3 girls and wants a boy so she might terminate and try again....that is crazy!!!!! I hope people don't take it that seriously!

That was a hypothetical. They didn't actually interview someone who said that. The point they were making is that pro-life advocates argue that the test might lead to increased rates of gender-selection abortions. They refuse to even sell the kit in India and China b/c of this.

Phillywife · June 2009

For $35 I can get a pedicure/manicure that lasts til my 18 week ultrasound, a new shirt for my expanding belly or a gender neutral bouncy seat for my baby.

All things I can rely on.

MrsSandro · June 2009

That is disturbing. I am pro choice but I am not in support of someone getting an abortion because they didn't like the gender of their baby. So messed up.

bethskye · June 2009

People will believe anything. At least old wives' tales don't cost anything.

B!tchBeckman · June 2009

misschippers:
https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/09/gender.prediction.test/index.html

lemme try and post link.

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LEE_V · June 2009

I was just coming to post the article!

Perhaps an actual doctor or scientist would have been a good person to interview for this article Confused

maryannelise · June 2009

Ridiculous. I took this test two weekends ago when I went to stay with a friend of mine. I refused to buy it b/c of the cost, but she wanted me to take it so bad that she bought it for me. We only did it for fun. She said she took two during her pregnancy (yes, two) one was a boy result and then second was a girl result. She ended up having a girl. I think it's a fun thing to do if you have $35 to flush down the toilet.

heather_09_15_07 · June 2009

MrsSandro:
That is disturbing. I am pro choice but I am not in support of someone getting an abortion because they didn't like the gender of their baby. So messed up.

That is so so so unlikely.

kokomama · June 2009

heather_09_15_07:

MrsSandro:
That is disturbing. I am pro choice but I am not in support of someone getting an abortion because they didn't like the gender of their baby. So messed up.

That is so so so unlikely.

Are you saying it is unlikely that someone would get an abortion because they don't like the gender of their baby?

heather_09_15_07 · June 2009

kokomama:
heather_09_15_07:

MrsSandro:
That is disturbing. I am pro choice but I am not in support of someone getting an abortion because they didn't like the gender of their baby. So messed up.

That is so so so unlikely.

Are you saying it is unlikely that someone would get an abortion because they don't like the gender of their baby?

That is exactly what I'm saying.

kokomama · June 2009

heather_09_15_07:
kokomama:
heather_09_15_07:

MrsSandro:
That is disturbing. I am pro choice but I am not in support of someone getting an abortion because they didn't like the gender of their baby. So messed up.

That is so so so unlikely.

Are you saying it is unlikely that someone would get an abortion because they don't like the gender of their baby?

That is exactly what I'm saying.

I'm just thinking of the China One Child Policy, and how many more girls would have been aborted if a test like this were available to Chinese women. Even though the intelligender test is not reliable (or probably accurate more than 50% of the time) I can see women who really want a son believing anything.

heather_09_15_07 · June 2009

Well, I did say unlikely, not impossible. And IMO, anyone that would abort just because of gender disappointment probably shouldn't have kids in the first place.

edit: I do see your point, though.

FLVintageBride · June 2009

kokomama:
heather_09_15_07:
kokomama:
heather_09_15_07:

MrsSandro:
That is disturbing. I am pro choice but I am not in support of someone getting an abortion because they didn't like the gender of their baby. So messed up.

That is so so so unlikely.

Are you saying it is unlikely that someone would get an abortion because they don't like the gender of their baby?

That is exactly what I'm saying.

I'm just thinking of the China One Child Policy, and how many more girls would have been aborted if a test like this were available to Chinese women. Even though the intelligender test is not reliable (or probably accurate more than 50% of the time) I can see women who really want a son believing anything.

Yes, in other cultures this is much more likely to happen. At the same time, I don't think we can judge the decisions that parents have to make on family planning in third world countries from our own priviledged American experience.

We have the luxury of viewing our children as a choice made purely out of the desire to be a parent. Children are an economic good in most of the world and parents are depend upon them for the assurance of their own prosperity and livelihoods. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that, from a purely economic perspective, girls in the third world are a drain on their families while boys are an asset. I'm not sure that infanticide or the selling of daughters into the underground sex trade is any kinder than selective abortion of female fetuses.

kokomama · June 2009

FLVintageBride:
kokomama:
heather_09_15_07:
kokomama:
heather_09_15_07:

MrsSandro:
That is disturbing. I am pro choice but I am not in support of someone getting an abortion because they didn't like the gender of their baby. So messed up.

That is so so so unlikely.

Are you saying it is unlikely that someone would get an abortion because they don't like the gender of their baby?

That is exactly what I'm saying.

I'm just thinking of the China One Child Policy, and how many more girls would have been aborted if a test like this were available to Chinese women. Even though the intelligender test is not reliable (or probably accurate more than 50% of the time) I can see women who really want a son believing anything.

Yes, in other cultures this is much more likely to happen. At the same time, I don't think we can judge the decisions that parents have to make on family planning in third world countries from our own priviledged American experience.

We have the luxury of viewing our children as a choice made purely out of the desire to be a parent. Children are an economic good in most of the world and parents are depend upon them for the assurance of their own prosperity and livelihoods. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that, from a purely economic perspective, girls in the third world are a drain on their families while boys are an asset. I'm not sure that infanticide or the selling of daughters into the underground sex trade is any kinder than selective abortion of female fetuses.

I agree with you. I'm not judging other countries, I'm just saying that I can see how terminating a pregnancy based on gender could be a likelihood for some people.

misschippers · June 2009

I just don't know why this silly test is making national headlines today! It's just a huge advertisement for junk.

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