Killing Babies For Being the Wrong Sex
Feb 23, 2012 20:54:19 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Feb 23, 2012 20:54:19 GMT -5
Killing babies for being the wrong sex? What happened to the good ol’ days when we only killed babies because we didn’t want them?
Doctors 'agree to abort babies for being the wrong sex... no questions asked'
By Rosie Taylor and Sophie Borland
Inquiry last night after an investigation found some NHS doctors were offering abortions because babies were the wrong sex
Andrew Lansley launched an inquiry last night after an investigation found some NHS doctors were offering abortions because babies were the wrong sex
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley last night launched an urgent investigation after it emerged that doctors were offering mothers abortions based purely on the gender of their unborn child.
Doctors working for NHS and private clinics were said to be agreeing to carry out the terminations despite the fact that ‘sex-selection’ is against the law.
They were also allegedly recorded admitting they would falsify paperwork to arrange the illegal abortions.
An investigation by the Daily Telegraph saw undercover reporters accompany mothers-to-be to nine clinics in different regions. On three occasions doctors were reported to have offered to arrange abortions after the pregnant women said they did not want the baby because of its sex.
Mr Lansley has now instructed officials to investigate.
He said last night: ‘I’m extremely concerned to hear about these allegations. Sex-selection is illegal and is morally wrong. I’ve asked my officials to investigate this as a matter of urgency.’
Last year the Council of Europe recommended that member states including Britain prevent parents from learning the gender of their baby because of concerns over sex-selection abortions. Terminations on grounds of sex of the foetus are illegal under the 1967 Abortion Act, but terminations for non-medical reasons are legal until 24 weeks.
More than 180,000 abortions are carried out every year. Some 22.1 per cent of all abortions carried out in the UK in 2008 were on girls aged under 20.
More than 180,000 abortions are carried out every year. Some 22.1 per cent of all abortions carried out in the UK in 2008 were on girls aged under 20
More than 180,000 abortions are carried out every year. Some 22.1 per cent of all abortions carried out in the UK in 2008 were on girls aged under 20
In a video taken in the course of the Daily Telegraph investigation, a pregnant women clearly tells consultant Prabha Sivaraman at Manchester’s Pall Mall Medical Centre that she wants to abort her baby because it is a girl.
The pregnant woman says: ‘That is not really appropriate for us right now, we were hoping for a boy.’
The consultant replies: ‘I don’t ask questions. If you want a termination, you want a termination.’ She is then shown telephoning a colleague to arrange the procedure, explaining that it was for ‘social reasons’ and the woman ‘doesn’t want questions asked’.
The cost of the termination is given as £200 or £300, on top of £500 already paid to the clinic for the consultation.
According to the newspaper, after taking the woman’s contact details, Miss Sivaraman asked if she had considered her options.
‘Oh, absolutely … I can’t have it, this baby, because of the gender, so that’s just how it is …’ she replies in the video.
The Care Quality Commission, which is the official watchdog for health and social care services in England – including abortion clinics – is facing fresh questions on its performance following the allegations.
The quango has already come under fire after it emerged last year that residents of Winterbourne View care home were abused. In September, David Cameron backed a critical report by MPs which said the regulator had taken its ‘eye off the ball’.
CQC said last night: ‘We are very concerned at this information. We will be looking very carefully to see if any providers or doctors have breached our essential standards and will take appropriate action.’
Anthony Ozimic, of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, 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.
MP Frank Field lost a Commons vote on the issue of counselling
Campaign: MP Nadine Dorries, alongside Frank Field, recently lost a vote on the issue of counselling for abortions
Campaign: MP Frank Field, alongside Nadine Dorries, recently lost a vote on the issue of counselling for abortions
‘Sex-selective abortion is an inevitable consequence of easy access to abortion, a situation to which the pro-abortion lobby has no convincing answer.’
In the UK, abortions are allowed on certain grounds, including that continuing with the pregnancy would be a greater risk to the life, physical or mental health of the woman or her existing children than ending the pregnancy, or that there is a real risk the child would have a serious physical or mental disability.
In September, Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries and Labour’s Frank Field lost a Commons vote on the issue of counselling.
They wanted to prevent non-statutory abortion providers such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) from offering counselling.
Mrs Dorries said that, because they receive money for carrying out terminations, the organisations have a vested interest.
Stephanie Byrom, the chief executive of Pall Mall Medical, denied that the clinic offered terminations on the grounds of gender determination.
She told the Telegraph that if one of its consultants had breached its rules it would take ‘immediate action’.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105105/Doctors-agree-abort-babies-wrong-sex.html#ixzz1nFo2GYNK
Doctors 'agree to abort babies for being the wrong sex... no questions asked'
By Rosie Taylor and Sophie Borland
Inquiry last night after an investigation found some NHS doctors were offering abortions because babies were the wrong sex
Andrew Lansley launched an inquiry last night after an investigation found some NHS doctors were offering abortions because babies were the wrong sex
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley last night launched an urgent investigation after it emerged that doctors were offering mothers abortions based purely on the gender of their unborn child.
Doctors working for NHS and private clinics were said to be agreeing to carry out the terminations despite the fact that ‘sex-selection’ is against the law.
They were also allegedly recorded admitting they would falsify paperwork to arrange the illegal abortions.
An investigation by the Daily Telegraph saw undercover reporters accompany mothers-to-be to nine clinics in different regions. On three occasions doctors were reported to have offered to arrange abortions after the pregnant women said they did not want the baby because of its sex.
Mr Lansley has now instructed officials to investigate.
He said last night: ‘I’m extremely concerned to hear about these allegations. Sex-selection is illegal and is morally wrong. I’ve asked my officials to investigate this as a matter of urgency.’
Last year the Council of Europe recommended that member states including Britain prevent parents from learning the gender of their baby because of concerns over sex-selection abortions. Terminations on grounds of sex of the foetus are illegal under the 1967 Abortion Act, but terminations for non-medical reasons are legal until 24 weeks.
More than 180,000 abortions are carried out every year. Some 22.1 per cent of all abortions carried out in the UK in 2008 were on girls aged under 20.
More than 180,000 abortions are carried out every year. Some 22.1 per cent of all abortions carried out in the UK in 2008 were on girls aged under 20
More than 180,000 abortions are carried out every year. Some 22.1 per cent of all abortions carried out in the UK in 2008 were on girls aged under 20
In a video taken in the course of the Daily Telegraph investigation, a pregnant women clearly tells consultant Prabha Sivaraman at Manchester’s Pall Mall Medical Centre that she wants to abort her baby because it is a girl.
The pregnant woman says: ‘That is not really appropriate for us right now, we were hoping for a boy.’
The consultant replies: ‘I don’t ask questions. If you want a termination, you want a termination.’ She is then shown telephoning a colleague to arrange the procedure, explaining that it was for ‘social reasons’ and the woman ‘doesn’t want questions asked’.
The cost of the termination is given as £200 or £300, on top of £500 already paid to the clinic for the consultation.
According to the newspaper, after taking the woman’s contact details, Miss Sivaraman asked if she had considered her options.
‘Oh, absolutely … I can’t have it, this baby, because of the gender, so that’s just how it is …’ she replies in the video.
The Care Quality Commission, which is the official watchdog for health and social care services in England – including abortion clinics – is facing fresh questions on its performance following the allegations.
The quango has already come under fire after it emerged last year that residents of Winterbourne View care home were abused. In September, David Cameron backed a critical report by MPs which said the regulator had taken its ‘eye off the ball’.
CQC said last night: ‘We are very concerned at this information. We will be looking very carefully to see if any providers or doctors have breached our essential standards and will take appropriate action.’
Anthony Ozimic, of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, 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.
MP Frank Field lost a Commons vote on the issue of counselling
Campaign: MP Nadine Dorries, alongside Frank Field, recently lost a vote on the issue of counselling for abortions
Campaign: MP Frank Field, alongside Nadine Dorries, recently lost a vote on the issue of counselling for abortions
‘Sex-selective abortion is an inevitable consequence of easy access to abortion, a situation to which the pro-abortion lobby has no convincing answer.’
In the UK, abortions are allowed on certain grounds, including that continuing with the pregnancy would be a greater risk to the life, physical or mental health of the woman or her existing children than ending the pregnancy, or that there is a real risk the child would have a serious physical or mental disability.
In September, Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries and Labour’s Frank Field lost a Commons vote on the issue of counselling.
They wanted to prevent non-statutory abortion providers such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) from offering counselling.
Mrs Dorries said that, because they receive money for carrying out terminations, the organisations have a vested interest.
Stephanie Byrom, the chief executive of Pall Mall Medical, denied that the clinic offered terminations on the grounds of gender determination.
She told the Telegraph that if one of its consultants had breached its rules it would take ‘immediate action’.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105105/Doctors-agree-abort-babies-wrong-sex.html#ixzz1nFo2GYNK
