I really don't understand what everyone here is practically suggesting. Do you want to question every woman who wants to abort her embryo?
First off, Fetus /=/ Embryo - they are two different terms referring to two different stages of pregnancy. This question specifically asked about fetuses, which refers to the 9th week of Pregnancy and beyond. Embryo is first 8 weeks only.
Second, with any limitation on abortion comes some form of questioning. You want a parental notification requirement? Congratulations, you're asking the woman whether her parents know. You want to limit late term abortions to life or health of the mother? Congratulations, you're asking (either directly or indirectly through medical tools) whether the abortion is being done for a medical reason. You want a blanket ban on abortion after 24 weeks? Congratulations, you're asking (either directly or indirectly through medical tools) how long the woman has been pregnant. Unless you literally want free and unfettered abortion at any point in pregnancy, some form of questioning is required to enforce literally any limitation on abortion.
I mean I don't support most of those restrictions anyway apart from late-term abortions, but those types of questions are not even remotely in the same category as questioning a woman about her
reason for having an abortion. Doing so automatically creates the impression that there are good reasons and bad reasons. It puts the doctor or questioner in a position of authority and power over her. It makes her feel uncomfortable and treats her as if she is not capable of making sound decisions. When you go to the doctor to fix a broken tooth, you are not asked to justify your reason for being there apart from the fact that your tooth hurts and you want it to stop. You aren't threatened with the idea that you might be sent home with earth shattering pain because your reasons for fixing the tooth aren't acceptable to the doctor. In much the same way, going to the a clinic to receive an abortion is seeking a medical procedure. You have the right to be informed about the procedure or available alternatives, but forcing you to justify your reasons for wanting the procedure amounts to blatant coercion.
I mean sure, if people get some sort of malicious pleasure in demeaning the character of others, then yes, I don't like the idea of aborting because you didn't get the kind of fetus that you wanted. However, self-righteous soap boxing about this issue means literally nothing unless you're willing to subject women to interrogations prior to having an abortion. Unless you're willing to do that, you will never know why a woman chose to have an abortion and will never have a reason to rail against her decision, apart from the fact that she chose to have an abortion in the first place. There's literally no point to these threads other than pointing fingers at people and saying "bad! you are very bad! and probably going to the very bad place when you die!"
And by the way, it's not exactly easy to determine the sex of the baby. There's not really an exact science on it in terms of when it happens. It's usually not until late in the 2nd trimester, far beyond the point when most people choose to abort. Because usually when people want an abortion, its because they don't actually want to have to go through all the crap that is pregnancy.
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