Save the Gay Fetuses!

"(Bill) LD 908, would make it illegal in Maine to abort a fetus that is known to have the 'gay gene.'"

Ah, the spectre of eugenics being used to drive a wedge between liberals who identify primarily as pro-choice and those who identify primarily as supporters of gay rights. How novel.

My girlfriend just said if she were pregnant with a baby known to have this as-yet-undocumented "gay gene," she would struggle with what to do. Not because she hates gay people obviously, but because if other people were aborting gay babies, "My gay baby will have no one to sleep with!"

Comments

[Melinda Barton]

This is too damned funny. But tell your girlfriend not to worry. I'm sure there'll be at least one other person out there willing to save their gay fetus so that he/she can be your daughter/son-in-law.
On a serious note, the whole biological cause for sexual orientation thing is a very bizarre catch-22. If they find one, they can't continue to condemn us for being gay. OF course, they can then more easily target us for abortion, whatever, because we are.

[Tannish]

I bought these real gay jeans on sale once. Does that mean I shouldn't have babies with someone?

I would like to propose the wholesale elimination af anyone who shows the slightest inclination of having concervative genes. It seems only right to abort fetuses that might carry dangerous communicative diseases.