Rapper at own child's gender reveal: 'If it's not a boy, then it's an abortion'

Rapper Daniel Hernandez, known as his stage name "Tekashi 6ix9ine," has found himself embroiled in controversy after a livestream of a gender reveal party — where he devalued both his girlfriend and his preborn child — went viral.

Key Takeaways:

• Daniel Hernandez is in a relationship with Aliday Alter, who is currently pregnant.

• At a gender reveal party, Hernandez said he would make Alter have an abortion if she was carrying a girl; at the party, it was revealed she is having a boy.

• Gendercide is a global problem, including in the United States, and bias against baby girls has been a problem throughout history and across cultures.

The Details:

Aliday Alter recently announced her pregnancy on social media, writing that her "world is about to change." She and rapper Daniel Hernandez couple planned a gender reveal party, and video first shared by TMZ has created some controversy.

In a livestream from the party, Hernandez was asked by friends what he thought the baby would be. "If it's not a boy, then it's abortion," he said, as his friends all reacted with shock.

The group then went to talk to Alter and ask what she thought the baby would be; after she said it was a girl, Hernandez doubled down.

"I said, if it's not a boy, it's abortion," he reiterated, as Alter appeared to laugh nervously next to him. "She's down! She's open-minded."

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Video posted by the couple on social media revealed that their baby is a boy.

Hernandez is already the father to two girls with two different mothers.

According to Page Six, he also has a long criminal history, including one incredibly disturbing felony charge of "use of a [13-year-old] child in a sexual performance" which involved pornographic video. The complaint is graphic (CONTENT WARNING).

He has also been involved in numerous shooting incidents, has alleged ties to gang activity, and has been accused several times of domestic violence and domestic assault.

Why It Matters:

Gendercide, which is what Hernandez was demanding of his girlfriend, is sadly not new. Fatal discrimination against girls, simply for being girls, has occurred throughout history; it continues to take place today across the globe.

Consider, for example, a disturbing quote from a Roman soldier, Hilarion, from a letter written in 1 BC to his wife, Alis, in which he instructs her to murder their child if it was a baby girl (emphasis added):

Know that we are still even now in Alexandria. Do not worry if when they all return I remain in Alexandria. I beg and beseech you to take care of the little child, and as soon as we receive wages I will send them to you.

If - good luck to you! - you give birth, if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, throw it out.

You told Aphrodisias, ‘Do not forget me.’ How can I forget you? I beg you therefore not to worry.

The evil of his instruction to murder his own female child was not atypical of that period. And yet, some societies have yet to move past gendercide; it persists even today, both casually — as shown by Hernandez — and systemically.

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In recent years, gendercide against girls is most notably seen in Asian countries and cultures, with particularly dire consequences in countries which also had strict population control policies in place.

In countries like Nepal, India, and China, where there are cultural preferences for sons, the sex ratios have become seriously skewed. The practice continued in western countries as well, largely due to immigrants, and persists today, according to recent reports from the United Nations; a Live Action investigation found that gendercide is accepted by the abortion industry in the United States as well.

The Bottom Line:

Gendercide is a despicable practice, of taking someone's life purely because of their sex; doing so with a preborn child, a human being at his or her most vulnerable, is even more evil. It is unsurprising that men and cultures that treat women as mere sexual objects might also treat baby girls as objects that they fail to value otherwise.