{"id":51490,"date":"2014-07-07T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=51490"},"modified":"2014-07-08T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T23:15:54","slug":"uks-top-abortion-provider-promoting-sex-selection-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/uks-top-abortion-provider-promoting-sex-selection-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s top abortion provider promoting sex-selection abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Britain\u2019s largest abortion provider is stirring outrage for advising\u00a0women that sex-selective abortions are not against the law. The\u00a0<i>Sunday Express<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/487040\/Abortion-British-Pregnancy-Advisory-Service-Rape-Gender-Baby-Termination-Pregnancy\">reports<\/a> that the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which carries out 55,000 abortions a year, is informing women\u00a0that they\u00a0can legally obtain a gender-based abortion procedure\u00a0contrary to British law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:UcoROELO0igJ:www.reproductivereview.org\/images\/uploads\/Britains_abortion_law.pdf+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\">pamphlet<\/a> produced by the service titled <i>Britain\u2019s Abortion Law, What it Says and Why<\/i>, the organization addresses whether abortions based on gender are legal under the country&#8217;s Abortion Act. The answer: \u201cNo. The law is silent on the matter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is outrageous that a publicly \u00adfunded organization still has on its website gender abortion is not illegal, totally contradicting ministerial statements,\u201d told\u00a0Fiona Bruce, co-chairwoman of the All-Party Pro-life Group, to the\u00a0<em>Express<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the <em>Express<\/em>, BPAS said\u00a0Britain&#8217;s Department of Health is aware and has no issues with the document despite the\u00a0government&#8217;s\u00a0repeated affirmation that\u00a0the practice is illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">BPAS\u00a0chief, Ann Furedi, came under criticism last year over comments favoring a woman\u2019s right to a sex-selective abortion procedure.\u00a0 Furedi\u00a0noted that\u00a0she believes it is perfectly legal for a woman to end her pregnancy if she does not like the sex of her unborn child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Currently in Britain, parents can determine the gender of their child after 13 weeks of pregnancy. The <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2539648\/Thousands-girls-aborted-gender-Study-finds-couples-cultures-sons-deemed-desirable-terminating-female-pregnancies.html\">reports<\/a> that in 2011, ten percent\u00a0of the 190,000 abortions in England and Wales occurred during this stage of pregnancy.\u00a0According to the Daily Mail, although a inquiry conducted by the British government &#8220;found no evidence that women born abroad and now living in the UK were opting to abort females,&#8221; an &#8220;analysis of the 2011 National Census has shown widespread discrepancies in the sex ratio of children in some immigrant families, which suggests girls are being aborted.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/the-lost-girls-thousands-of-missing-girls-revealed-by-analysis-of-uks-2011-census-results-9059905.html\">investigation<\/a> conducted by <em>The Independent<\/em>\u00a0this year claims that\u00a01,400 to\u00a04,700 females have disappeared from the national census records of England and Wales, suggesting the possible practice of sex-selection abortion among some families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The practice of gender-based abortions is illegal in many countries, including countries where the practice is common.\u00a0Britain\u2019s Department of Health has stated that abortion based on gender alone is illegal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Crown Prosecution Service ruled in September that it would not be in the interest of the public to prosecute doctors accused of committing sex-selective\u00a0abortions since the law did not specifically ban gender-specific\u00a0abortions. Britain&#8217;s health secretary then acted to affirm a ban on the practice, but the British Medical Association criticized the government guidance, noting that under some circumstances, abortion based on gender is justifiable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, Britain\u2019s Department of Health reaffirmed that it is illegal for abortion providers to\u00a0\u00a0perform abortions based solely on gender and the BMA guidance does not exempt doctors who refuse to comply.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s largest abortion provider is stirring outrage for advising\u00a0women that sex-selective abortions are not against the law. The\u00a0Sunday Express\u00a0reports that the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which carries out 55,000 abortions a year, is informing women\u00a0that they\u00a0can legally obtain a gender-based abortion procedure\u00a0contrary to British law. 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