What's So Wrong With Aborting Gay Babies?

Papundit at a pro-Santorum blog (the Senator, not the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter, although he may be pro-that too) takes issue with my recent post suggesting that Senator Rick Santorum would make an exception to his pro-life views to abort gay babies (gabies). He even names me "Wacko of the Week". Awesome. I'll take my attention where I can get it. Although for future reference, I prefer the term Wacko-American.

In a much longer - and far more interesting - follow-up post Papundit takes schadenfreude in the predicament that lefties will be in if scientists ever discover a "gay" gene. Parents would be tempted to abort babies believed to be "at risk" of being born gay, pitting the pro-abortion movement against the gay rights movement. He is right to suggest that this would create chaos on the left, which has no consistent philosophy to guide it. But, for people who are really pro-choice - not just on abortion, but on everything (i.e. libertarians) - there is no predicament.

Women either have a right to abort their babies or they don't. If they do (and I say they do, even though abortion is "gross"), then they have a right to abort babies for any reason, including because the babies might be gay. If this makes pro-abortion folks uncomfortable - because it sounds a little like genocide - then maybe they should question their support for abortion in general. After all, legalized abortion has resulted in millions of babies not being born that otherwise would have been. Is that genocide?

For what it's worth, I would abort a "straight" baby before I aborted a "gay" baby. A gay baby has a higher lifetime income potential. Plus, after I taught him how to tie his shoes, he could help me pick out good clothes to wear.