[UK] Ministers fight to keep late abortions secret
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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. –
The Telegraph reports 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.
“Transparency is the essence of medicine. If we don’t have that, all
sorts of wrongdoing can go on. I am not saying that using abortion is doing
wrong, but we need to see the data in order to understand what is happening.”