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Minister orders investigation into abortion of girls
A new survey of birth ratios in Britain has been ordered by the Government, amid fears that sex-selective abortions are taking placeA new survey of birth ratios in Britain has been ordered by the Government, amid fears that sex-selective abortions are taking place in Britain.
Earl Howe, a health minister, said the Government wants to “monitor the situation” and “remain vigilant” following evidence that some doctors in the UK are carrying out selective abortions.
He also announced that new guidance will be issued “shortly” to doctors which sets out the Government’s interpretation of the law on gender-selective abortions, as well as further information about reaching and recording an opinion formed in good faith”.
It was reported earlier this year that illegal abortion of female foetuses to ensure that families have sons is widely practised within some ethnic communities in the UK.
That came after an investigation by The Telegraph in 2012 which uncovered evidence that women were being granted illegal abortions by doctors based on the sex of their unborn baby.
Doctors at British clinics were secretly filmed agreeing to terminate foetuses purely because they are either male or female.Speaking in a debate in the House of Lords, Baroness Knight said that four of the seven sections of the Abortion Act 1967 “seem to be broken regularly”,
She said: “Yet it is impossible to get details of investigations into this law-breaking or about any resulting prosecutions.”
Lady Knight, a former senior Conservative MP, added: “Abortion law surely lacks clarity on matters that need to be clear.
“Furthermore, it suffers from those who play with words to the extent that it permits terminations that were never intended to be legal.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10745189/Minister-orders-investigation-into-abortion-of-girls.html