A 'feminist' blogger who says she terminated a pregnancy because of her child's gender has responded to a public backlash, telling critics to 'grow up'
A "feminist" blogger has hit back at those outraged by her decision to have a termination because of the baby's gender and said she would "do it again in a heartbeat".
Known only as Lana, the woman provoked outrage after claiming in her blog she aborted her baby because it was a boy and she'd had "bad experiences with men".
After being inundated with negative comments, the blogger has responded on her blog at Injusticestories.com by stating: "I cannot believe some of the emails that have been forwarded to me, do people really exist who want to see me dead because of what I chose to do with my own body? Those are the minds of mentally disturbed individuals.
"To me, the experience was liberating, the emotions I felt when deciding what I should do, and after learning my fetus was male was something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Coming out of it a liberated woman though was more than worth it.
"If I had to do it all over again, I would do it in a heartbeat."
In her first blog, the writer says she found out she was pregnant in 2012 and describes the father as ‘the donator’.
She also claims to be a feminist, fighting women’s rights "to the point of eschewing a career".
Lena said when she found out she was having a boy, she was "in shock, I started crying, weeping at the thought of what I was about to curse the world with".
She continued: "I don’t hate men, I hate the patriarchy, what men, and even some women, turn into, I wasn’t going to let that happen with my offspring. The chances were greater that it would with a male, it was unacceptable."
Sex selection abortion is expected to be made officially illegal in the UK under an amendment to the Serious Crime Bill, which has the backing of 70 MPs.
The bill has completed its committee stage in the Commons and is intended to clarify the law on sex selective abortion.