Select-a-sex

Democrat or Bubonic Today's Plague Culture House rejects bill penalizing doctors for sex-selective abortions “ The House on Thursday rejected a Republican bill that would impose fines and prison terms on doctors who perform abortions for the sole purpose of controlling the gender of the child, a practice known as sex-selective abortion.  Red China, until quite recently, restricted families to just one child, and everyone wanted a boy.  So, if a girl was born she quite often had her head summarily smashed against a brick wall. The difference between that practice and sex-selective abortion is one only of degree. It seems to me then that this is a black and white issue, with  no shades of gray.  Obviously though, these Republicans, certainly they who voted and not absented themselves, disagreed.  McCarthy, Kevin (CA) No Vote Lewis, Jerry (CA) No Vote Mary Bono Mack (CA) NAY Young, Bill (FL) No Vote Dold, Bob (IL) NAY Burton, Dan (IN) No Vote Amash, Justin (MI) NAY Fortenberry, Jeffrey (NE) No Vote Guinta, Frank (NH) No Vote Bass, Charles “Charlie” (NH) NAY Paul, Ronald “Ron” (TX) NAY Hayworth, Nan (NY) NAY                                (source). I'll guess that Ron Paul, and maybe others objected, on stark Libertarian grounds, that the Feds have no bidness dictating to states.  However, the practice is nominally performed under the Roe v. Wade umbrella, so that's a specious, not to mention heinous, argument.  THE HILL article reports seven Republicans joined with Democrats in voting no, so I may have missed one. ”