{"id":1938,"date":"2014-09-28T23:56:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2014-09-28T23:57:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:57:25","slug":"ellen-shaffertwsr-sfgate-sex-selection-laws-fuel-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Shaffer\/TWSR in SF Chron: Sex-Selection Laws Fuel Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Letters to the editor, Sept. 21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Published 5:03\u00a0pm, Friday, September 19, 2014\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/opinion\/article\/Letters-to-the-editor-Sept-21-5768090.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/opinion\/<wbr>article\/Letters-to-the-editor-<wbr>Sept-21-5768090.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women are entirely capable of deciding whether and when to have children. Criminalizing abortion for any reason directly undermines the status, value and autonomy of women. \u201cSan Francisco feminism: Go ahead and abort girls\u201d (Insight, Sept. 14) mistakenly suggests that bans on abortions based on the sex of the fetus are both acceptable and necessary to avoid wholesale\u00a0femicide.<\/p>\n<p>While choosing abortion based on sex is virtually unknown in the U.S., the best way to eliminate any vestige of the practice here and internationally is to demonstrate that our societies value women, from paying us equally to trusting our personal reasons for seeking an\u00a0abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=opinion&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=property&amp;query=%22San+Francisco+Board+of+Supervisors%22\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">San Francisco Board of Supervisors<\/span><\/a>, led by board President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=opinion&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=property&amp;query=%22David+Chiu%22\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">David Chiu<\/span><\/a>, deserves support for its leadership in prohibiting abortion bans that promote racial stereotypes about Asian Americans and restrict women\u2019s access to health\u00a0care.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=opinion&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=property&amp;query=%22Ellen+Shaffer%22\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Ellen R. Shaffer<\/span><\/a>, PhD, Director, Trust Women\/Silver Ribbon Campaign,\u00a0San Francisco<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br clear=\"all\" \/> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters to the editor, Sept. 21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Published 5:03\u00a0pm, Friday, September 19, 2014\u00a0 http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/opinion\/article\/Letters-to-the-editor-Sept-21-5768090.php Women are entirely capable of deciding whether and when to have children. Criminalizing abortion for any reason directly undermines the status, value and autonomy of women. \u201cSan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=1938\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}