Fathers, Don't Abort Your Daughters

So you learned the baby you helped to conceive is a girl and not a boy. Already frightened by the idea of fatherhood, already concerned about all the hardships and sacrifices parenting entails, already disoriented by the potential radical change this requires in the way you envision your future, you feel now — even if only slightly — more inclined to want your partner to abort.

Perhaps it’s natural. You know how to relate to a boy. With a boy, all you have to do is wrestle on the floor, make some ripe fart sounds and squish a potato bug between your fingers — and you are a legend. You could take a boy to the Boston Celtics, but cannot abide the thought of taking a girl to the Boston ballet. You wanted to show your kid how to play Diablo III (or whatever version is out by then), not Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom. You understood the hit you would be taking to your wallet and your social life, not to mention your sex life, but you balanced the ledger against baseball games and taking pictures of your little gangsta and busting out the old Transformers collection. Now, you’re supposed to stick around and help take care of a girl, a girl who will probably show an absolutely irrational preference for the color pink, a girl who will be fascinated with faerie princesses and Hello Kitty and (God forbid) Barbie, a girl who will probably prefer your wife and conspire with her against you.

So now you’re fantasizing about an abortion again, how one visit to a clinic could give you back the future you wanted, how you could escape from the whole situation and all the pressures it brought with it. You don’t feel ready for this. Your heart does not feel big enough. You’re still so selfish, so lazy, so irresponsible — and those are the things you like about yourself.

Don’t do it. Do not do it. Your daughter is waiting for you. She will expand and soften your heart. She will make you a better man. A daughter too is a blessing beyond measure. Give yourself to this, and she will make you into a protector and provider.

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Evermyrtle

It is such a pity that he waits until so late to worry, and why does "girl" add a bigger problem, than if it had been a son. The one he impregnated was a girl and the problem is ONLY 50% her fault. This son thing is a huge "EGO" problem. and to kill a little girl to feed your ego is unthinkable. I never worried about if my expected child was boy or girl. I wanted a healthy baby I was just happy to let GOD choose the sex of my child.

Matt. 13:13-15
13.Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put HIS hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them
14. But, JESUS said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
15. And He laid HIS hands on them, and departed thence.
Nancy Sternberg

God created male and female and placed equal value on both as His son died on the cross.
Mike Southerland

I have four daughters (and four sons). I could not imagine not having my girls. Dads, God has given you the responsibility to protect your daughters until you give them to their husbands. My wife and I prayed much for our youngest baby girl. After four miscarriages following the birth of our seventh child, the Lord blessed us with our beautiful baby girl. If you have never been a father, just wait. There's nothing like looking into the eyes of your little baby, boy or girl, and knowing that they are helpless without your care. If you have ever entertained the thought of abortion, cry out to Christ in repentance. Ask Him to forgive you and give you love for your child.