Greta75
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I actually didn't know this, but I learn from my Korean friend that Abortion is illegal in Korea. I was quite surprised.
And it was not religious motivated.
I think in many oriental Asian cultures. They face the problem of female child being aborted, because they are female. And seriously the main issue is daughter's children cannot carry their family name. That is the gist of why they don't want female kids. China does this in massive amount because of their one child policy. So if the child is female, they are aborting it for sure! Until they get a male. I find it interesting that in Western cultures, people don't seem to care so much. I mean female in Western culture adopts her husband's name, something Chinese women do not do. And their children, usually also adopt her husband's name and Western culture seem to not care if their family name dies out through having only daughters. But Eastern culture gives a big damn about it. Like it's almost like our duty to our ancestors that our family name gets carried through forever and forever.
And it's not really a gender thing because if the culture was different, and only babies of females carry family name. The opposite might happened, and boys might be the ones getting aborted instead.
So apparently this abortion of female babies was just getting so ridiculously out of hand in Korea, that the government decided to ban abortion and tell people to live with the gender of the child they have! Stop getting rid of babies just because they are girls.
I live in a country where, everybody is unanimous about abortion. Even our Islamic council send out of fatwa that abortion and birth control is permissible in Islam, which I thought was very funny.
We like having abortion being legal and we have unity in believing people shouldn't bring babies into this world they don't want. Ironically too, because of all the religious belief, and since there is no limit to the number of children you can have, we don't have the problem of females getting aborted. What we do have, is female children being given away at birth. Their religion forbids them to abort, so they don't really use it. But they are sure hell not gonna bother to raise a female baby and try to give them away for free! That was the old old days anyway. So then you got the situation where, families get a free female baby, raise her from baby to be a maid for free. You know servitude from baby onward. And they grow up doing that, left uneducated but taught their lives is just meant to do housework for the family and then later, take care of the kids of their own children's children. It's free slavery in some way.
Modern days now, people don't care too much about male or female. And women prefer female for frivolous reasons, as they can dress them up more. Males prefer males for practical reasons. A Singaporean male tells me, he want a boy because, they can share toys and he don't have to spend extra money on pads and tampons.
But the only other country that bans abortion, and bans divorce too is Catholic Philippines. That is religious motivated, so yea, it's a catholic country.
But just thought, wow! Korea went extreme hardcore to protect the population of females.
I guess they didn't want a China situation where, you got too many men now and not enough females. And this is their solution.
< Message edited by Greta75 -- 7/17/2016 10:24:50 PM >
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