Abort gay babies?

News item:

"Experiments that claim to ‘cure’ homosexual rams spark anger": http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2524408_1,00.html

This article discusses a series of experiments done on the 10% of rams that are more prone to attempt to mount other rams than ewes. The goal is to increase their desire to mount ewes. Results show that hormonal levels can be monitored and changed to increase mounting of ewes and therefor increase lamb production. A ram that tries to mate with other rams is useless to the farmer. This has been interpreted as a possible medical cure for homosexuality.

But buried in the story is a discussion of how this could lead to pre-natal testing to determine the probability that an unborn child will grow up "gay". If the mother should decide that she doesn't want a "gay" child, should be allowed to abort it? Should she even be allowed to test for that? What if she wants a "gay" child? Should she be allowed to abort any unborn babies that do not test positive for "gay"?

It hurts to kill

News Item:
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.

Here in California, thankfully, capital punishment has also been suspended. Yes, I know that the murderous criminals who deserve death are now not going to die, but deserving death and actually being killed by the state are two different things. We do not improve the murderer by murdering him or her ourselves. We participate in a culture of violence. We remove any chance for redemption.

But the reason they give for not executing murderers is absurd: It might hurt! Do you think dismembering a baby doesn't hurt? The same government that is too kind hearted to stick a needle into a convicted murderer thinks nothing of tearing the arms and legs off, one piece at a time, of an unborn baby.

Hypocrites.