Image Source: ABC News
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has sparked outrage after saying during a livestream that his pregnant girlfriend would have an abortion if their baby turned out to be a girl.
The controversial rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, made the comments during a gender reveal party with influencer friends including Adin Ross and Clavicular. In footage first shared by TMZ, Hernandez said bluntly: “If it’s not a boy, then it’s abortion.”
The remark appeared to shock those around him, who awkwardly laughed off the comment. However, Hernandez doubled down moments later while standing beside his pregnant girlfriend, Aliday Alter.
“I said, if it’s not a boy, it’s abortion,” he repeated. “She’s down. She’s open-minded.”
The couple later discovered they were expecting a boy.
Alter had announced her pregnancy publicly in April, posting a photograph of herself on a beach alongside the caption: “My world is about to change.”
Hernandez’s comments are a clear example of “gendercide,” the practice of aborting babies because of their sex. While many initially dismissed the remarks as a joke, the incident exposes a wider cultural acceptance of abortion on demand, including for discriminatory reasons.
The increase in abortion-based gendercide was brought into light again this week after a viral video of an American expectant mother took abortion pills during a gender-reveal, in front of her daughter, to spite the father of her unborn baby, and because she didn’t want another girl.
Gender-selective abortion has long been associated with countries where sons are culturally preferred over daughters, including China and India, leading to severely skewed sex ratios. However, campaigners point out that the practice also exists in Western nations.
The controversy surrounding Hernandez has also reignited scrutiny of the rapper’s personal history. According to reports, Hernandez already has two daughters from previous relationships. He has also faced numerous criminal allegations and convictions over the years, including gang-related offences, accusations of domestic violence, and a felony charge involving the use of a child in a sexual performance.
The comments reflect a deeper societal problem in which unborn children are increasingly viewed as disposable, particularly when they do not meet parental expectations.
Historically, discrimination against baby girls stretches back centuries. One frequently cited example is a letter written by a Roman soldier in the first century BC instructing his wife to keep a baby boy but “throw out” a baby girl.
SPUC CEO, John Deighan, says: “The easy access to modern abortion practices risk repeating the prejudice seen in the past against the innocent baby sons or daughters of those who think their personal preferences trump the dignity of human life. People are rightfully abhorred by comments like those made by Hernandez, without realising that similar practices are done in the abortuaries of the United Kingdom every day.
“As the government incentivises lunch hour abortions and decriminalises abortion up-to-birth it will become far harder to police this evil sexist practice. The life of an unborn child is not conditional on sex. The life of every unborn child is sacred from conception.”
