A rapper has told friends at his 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 of sex-selective abortion in the UK
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”.
This directly contradicts a statement from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in response to these revelations. “This Government’s position is unequivocal: sex-selective abortion is illegal in England and Wales and will not be tolerated”.
“Sex is not a lawful ground for termination of pregnancy, and it is a criminal offence for any practitioner to carry out an abortion for that reason alone”.
“Anyone with evidence that this illegal practice is occurring must report it to the police immediately”.
BPAS’s claims follow revelations from a Department of Health and Social Care 2023 report of sex ratios at birth, which suggested that approximately 400 sex-selective abortions have taken place of female foetuses of Indian ethnicity between 2017 and 2021.
The report explains that where the ratio of males to females for a particular ethnicity or mother’s country of birth is greater than 107 males born for every 100 females born, “this may indicate that people in this group have been involved in sex selective abortions”.
The 2023 report conducted an analysis of birth sex ratios by the ethnicity of the child for England and Wales, both for overall birth sex ratio and by birth order, and found the “birth sex ratio for children of Indian ethnicity of the birth order 3 or more was 113 and found to be significantly higher than 107”.
This disparity in sex ratio at birth was used to draw the conclusion that “there may have been approximately 400 sex selective abortions to female fetuses of Indian ethnicity, after 2 or more previous children, in England and Wales over the 5 year period from 2017 to 2021”.
Repeated denial of the problem by abortion campaigners
Pro-abortion campaigners have repeatedly stated there is no evidence that sex-selective abortions are happening in the UK, even after the Department of Health’s findings, released in 2023, indicating there were around 400 such cases in the UK.
In June 2025, Stella Creasy MP said in Parliament that sex-selective abortion was a “trope” and added that “nobody can prove that abortion for sex selection reasons has happened”.
In May of the same year, she told Glamour Magazine that “Parliament ordered a national investigation into claims that ‘sex selection’ was happening, only for it to show there was no evidence of this at all”.
In July 2024, BPAS, with 24 other organisations, including the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said in a Parliamentary briefing that “The UK Government has found no evidence that women from some cultural backgrounds are ending pregnancies if they are expecting a girl”.
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “It is horrendous that this rapper appears to wish his girlfriend to undergo a sex-selective abortion, ending the life of an unborn child for no reason other than she is a girl”.
“Even though the Government has said that sex-selective abortion is illegal, the UK’s largest abortion provider, BPAS, which receives the vast majority of its funding from the Government, is telling women that sex-selective abortion is not illegal. This is a shocking contradiction in values from the Government”.
