{"id":196217,"date":"2019-02-14T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=196217"},"modified":"2019-02-13T01:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:25:28","slug":"midwife-women-sex-babies-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/midwife-women-sex-babies-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwife claims women aren’t told sex of their babies due to abortion fears"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sex-selective abortions are a real problem in many parts of the world. While people understandably think it’s an issue limited to Asian countries like China and India, gendercide is causing “missing girls” everywhere. Now, a midwife is claiming that women in Scotland<\/em> aren’t being told the sex of their babies<\/a> over fears that mothers would then choose abortion.<\/p>\n

Four out of 14 NHS boards (Grampian, Forth Valley, Orkney and Shetland) refuse to reveal a baby’s gender before birth. Some officials claim it is merely due to legal issues, with NHS Grampian claiming their sonographers have suffered “verbal abuse”; other statements write it off as merely an issue of policy. “These scans are aimed at establishing the health and growth of baby,” a spokesman for NHS Grampian and NHS Orkney told the Metro. “Our sonographers do not look for gender during tests as the results are not definitive. New parents are informed about the policy initially by their community midwife as well as by staff and signage during the tests themselves.”<\/p>\n

But is that the entire story?<\/p>\n