A convicted criminal turned rapper told friends at a gender reveal party for his unborn baby that if the child is not a boy, they will have an abortion.
Daniel Hernandez, who goes by the stage name Tekashi 6ix9ine, told his friends during a livestream at his unborn baby’s gender reveal, “If it’s not a boy, it’s abortion”.
Later in the livestream, when his girlfriend, Aliday Alter, says she thinks the unborn baby is a girl, the rapper reiterated that the baby would be aborted if it were a girl, stating that his girlfriend was okay with that as she is “open-minded”.
The comments were made just two weeks after Alter shared a photo of herself celebrating her pregnancy with the caption, “My world is about to change”.
Hernandez is a convicted felon who, in 2015, pleaded guilty to a felony count of use of a child in a sexual performance. In a cooperation agreement relating to another legal case, Hernandez admitted to carrying out years of domestic abuse; he was also arrested on domestic abuse charges in the Dominican Republic.
It later transpired at the gender reveal party that Alter was pregnant with a baby boy, meaning that no unborn child had to lose their life simply because of their sex on this occasion.
Evidence has emerged suggesting approximately 400 sex-selective abortions of baby girls happened in Britain between 2017 and 2021, despite the practice being illegal.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which in the last financial year performed over 110,000 abortions in the UK, claims on its website that sex-selective abortions are not illegal, sparking wide condemnation.
On its website, BPAS claims “The law is silent on the [sex-selective abortion] matter. Reason of fetal sex is not a specified ground for abortion within the Abortion Act, but nor is it specifically prohibited”.