The Daily Mail reports that the UK Chief Medical Officer
(Dame Sally Davies) “is to write to all GPs to make it plain that abortions
carried out solely on the grounds of the sex of the child are wrong.”
The Daily Mail said “The fact that the letter will be sent
out to all family doctors was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary question
by public health minister Jane Ellison earlier this month.”
This initiative is a response to the decision of Keir
Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, not to prosecute two abortionists
who were caught on camera agreeing to perform sex-selection abortions on a
woman posing as a patient. Starmer said that while there were grounds to
prosecute the men, it would not be in the “public interest.”
Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the abortion giant
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), wrote on a website that “doctors are
legally free to terminate pregnancies when the parents are unhappy with the sex
of the child,” explained the Daily Mail’s Daniel Martin.
Furedi’s
remarks posted on the online magazine “Spiked” resulted in major controversy.
Public health minister Ellison commented that after the
letter was sent out, the Department of Health “would then work with relevant
royal colleges and medical bodies to keep the guidance under review.”
We’ll have to wait to see if authorities really see
sex-selection abortions as a violation of the 1967 Abortion Act. Hopefully,
they will.
