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Ministers fight to keep late abortions secret - Telegraph
The Labour Party is, of course, the party of transparency and human rights for all (except for those dratted foetuses.)
I sometimes wonder, do supporters of abortion on demand ever ponder to think where the policy they advocate leads?
We could probably, all of us, be adjudged to have some disability or other, depending on how one defines 'disability'.
For example, my eyesight is not exactly 20-20, perhaps if my mother wanted to raise a airline pilot she could have been allowed to abort me as I did not fulfil the required template?
A parent who wished to raise a child who would excel in sports but was not that bothered about the child's intelligence could abort a child who did not fit those characteristics - another parent who wanted to raise the next Einstein but was not bothered if the child had poor physical co-ordination could do likewise.
Whither the Brave New World of designer babies?
Ministers fight to keep late abortions secret
Late abortions of "less than perfect" foetuses are the subject of a secrecy row with the Government.
By Beezy Marsh
Last Updated: 10:26PM GMT 06 Dec 2008
It centres on mothers who opt for termination because their unborn babies have been diagnosed with conditions such as club foot and cleft palate.
Doctors say such conditions can usually be corrected by surgery.
The Information Commissioner has ordered the release of the figures, but the Department of Health is resisting, claiming that disclosing the data could lead to women who have late abortions being identified.
While abortion is only legal in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if carried out on social grounds, "Ground E" of the 1967 Abortion Act makes it legal to abort a foetus which has a serious risk of physical or mental abnormality, right up to birth. There are continuing concerns that the law is being flouted to weed out "less than perfect" babies.
Prof Stuart Campbell, the leading obstetrician whose 3D-scan images of babies "walking in the womb" at 12 weeks led to calls for a lowering of the 24-week limit for social abortion, said last night: "It is a disgraceful situation for this data to be suppressed.
"This is not about whether one agrees with abortion. These statistics used to be published, now they are being withheld.
The Labour Party is, of course, the party of transparency and human rights for all (except for those dratted foetuses.)
I sometimes wonder, do supporters of abortion on demand ever ponder to think where the policy they advocate leads?
We could probably, all of us, be adjudged to have some disability or other, depending on how one defines 'disability'.
For example, my eyesight is not exactly 20-20, perhaps if my mother wanted to raise a airline pilot she could have been allowed to abort me as I did not fulfil the required template?
A parent who wished to raise a child who would excel in sports but was not that bothered about the child's intelligence could abort a child who did not fit those characteristics - another parent who wanted to raise the next Einstein but was not bothered if the child had poor physical co-ordination could do likewise.
Whither the Brave New World of designer babies?