An investigation by the Telegraph newspaper has found that some British abortion clinics are agreeing to terminate pregnancies based on the sex of the unborn baby — a practice which is not just immoral, but illegal under UK law.
Undercover reporters accompanied a number of pregnant women to clinics where they asked for their unborn baby to be terminated because it was the “wrong sex.” In some cases, Asian women carrying baby girls asked for the abortion on “cultural” grounds; in others, the women cited a desire for “family balancing.”
Some of the clinics approached explained that they could not perform sex-selection abortions, but others agreed to carry out the procedure. In most cases no counseling was offered, and one doctor was secretly filmed telling a women who enquired about having her baby girl aborted: “I don’t ask questions.”
The Telegraph has said it will publish further disclosures from its investigation tomorrow. Britain’s Health Secretary has said he will report the clinics caught in the sting to the police and the General Medical Council, the medical profession’s governing body.
The exposé is welcome, and will be a setback for the UK’s increasingly assertive pro-abortion movement. But it only hints at a wider, ongoing, and largely tolerated scandal.
In 2010, according to government figures, just under 190,000 abortions were carried out in England and Wales, and of those, 98% were carried out on the grounds that going through with the pregnancy carried a risk to the woman’s mental health. Pro-life campaigners have long alleged that the “mental health” provision is routinely abused and amounts to abortion-on-demand, and the Telegraph report lends credence to those claims: if abortion clinics are prepared to perform blatantly illegal sex-selection terminations, one can only imagine how widely the subjective “mental health” provision is being exploited.
Commenting on the Telegraph report, Anthony Ozimic, spokesman for British pro-life organization Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, said:
This investigation confirms the reality of eugenics in modern British medicine, in which some innocent human beings are deemed too inconvenient to be allowed to live. Sex-selective abortion is an inevitable consequence of easy access to abortion, a situation to which the pro-abortion lobby has no convincing answer.
The current laws and regulations are loosely interpreted and routinely flouted. The abortion lobby are shedding crocodile tears over sex-selective abortion because it calls the abortion industry and their feminist credentials into question.
Anyone who doubts, as the row over HHS contraception mandate rages on, where America is headed if Obamacare isn’t repealed should note that 96% of the abortions performed in 2010 were funded by the National Health Service — that is, by British taxpayers — yet while there’s an active pro-life lobby in the UK, abortion is nothing like as big an issue here as it is in the U.S. Perhaps this scandal will help to generate a new and badly needed debate.
Choice is choice. Amazing how the left suddenly finds a “woman’s choice” they don’t like.
If making abortion illegal would just lead to “back alley abortions with a coat-hanger,” won’t making sex-selective abortions illegal just lead to sex-selective back-alley abortions with a coat-hanger?
It’s going to hit the human race hard when they finally figure out that they’ve slaughtered tens of millions of people in the name of irresponsible pleasure.
When the only kind of abortion banned is for sex-selection (because a mental health loophole is nonsense of course), you come up with a class of thought crimes. And I don’t see this ending well. Once women are greatly outnumbered, democratic societies will look like the proverbial “two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner”.
…”Sex-selective abortion is an inevitable consequence of easy access to abortion…” You are totally wrong – it is a consequence of the utter depravity of man, or in this case, women, who attach no value whatsoever to a human life
um. well.since sex-selective abortions are mostly being used by asians- read Muslims and Hindus- we can assume that the woman is under some threat, since the UK hasn’t quite cracked down on honor killings, or muslim family killings, or anything of that sort. I doubt a woman easily kills her own image and future hope.
Well, if there are “Asians” involved, how is Britain going to enforce any sort of law on them? If this is happening in the no-go areas, it’s not even really Britain in those parts of London.
Nice going, Limeys! You’ve been colonized!
Well, if it’s mostly Muslims in Britainistan who are engaging in sex selective abortion, they’ll eventually abort themselves into oblivion, it’s hard to see a down side in this!
The first time I’ve ever read of this procedure, it made me ill. It really is difficult to believe we have come to this in a ‘civilized’ world.
practising muslims would not be participating in this crime as it is something that was outlawed by the prophet,its a crime that is rampant amongst asian hindus and chinese soon there society will have too many men which is already happening and not enough women around for marridge this evil crime must be stamped out and drs that agree to doing this should be struck off from practising