{"id":11278,"date":"2011-01-07T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11278"},"modified":"2011-01-07T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:47:06","slug":"an-australian-couple-will-abort-twin-boys-because-they-want-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-australian-couple-will-abort-twin-boys-because-they-want-a-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"An Australian couple will abort twin boys because they want a girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children are no longer seen as gifts from God, bearing their creator\u2019s image, but commodities to be picked through and discarded until a suitable specimen is found. This isn&#8217;t particularly surprising: it is one of the inevitable consequences of discarding Judeo-Christian ethics and replacing them with <em>if it makes me feel good, it is good<\/em> relativism.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1345057\/Couple-sons-abort-twin-boys-IVF--try-baby-girl-daughter-died.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A married couple who aborted twin boys the wife was expecting after IVF treatment have gone to court to choose the sex of their next child \u2013 because they want a girl.<\/p>\n<p>The husband and wife already have three sons and said they now want to have a girl after their baby daughter died soon after birth.<\/p>\n<p>They are both aged in their 30s and have taken their case to a legal tribunal after an independent medical body known as the Patient Review Panel rejected their bid to choose the gender of their next child using IVF.<\/p>\n<p>The couple said they had made the decision to terminate the twin boys but could not continue to have unlimited numbers of children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children are no longer seen as gifts from God, bearing their creator\u2019s image, but commodities to be picked through and discarded until a suitable specimen is found. This isn&#8217;t particularly surprising: it is one of the inevitable consequences of discarding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-australian-couple-will-abort-twin-boys-because-they-want-a-girl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022,446,1575],"class_list":["post-11278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-australia","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}