Eugenics: aborting the disabled

The UK government following a lengthy legal battle has revealed the precise numbers, gestational ages, and types of disability of babies aborted between 2002 and 2010 in England and Wales. 

According to a Daily Mail report published under the  banner headline “Revealed: The thousands of pregnancies aborted for ‘abnormalities’ including cleft palates and Down’s syndrome” which was based on Department of Health figures, a total of 2,290 babies were aborted last year for so called “medical conditions.”
In 2010 alone, 482 babies with Down’s syndrome were aborted, including ten who were over 24 weeks gestation.

·         “There were also 128 terminations for the nervous disorder spina bifida, including 12 after 24 weeks.

·         “Musculoskeletal problems such as club foot were the reason for 181 abortions, including eight over 24 weeks.

Anthony Ozimic, communications manager for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) commented as follows

“Between 2001 and 2010, the number of abortions on the grounds of disability rose by one-third, 10 times that of abortions generally. It is clear that legal abortion is a system which discriminates, fatally, against the disabled.”

The full response from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children  SPUC can be found here SPUC report  and the response of the SPUC affiliate No Less Human can be found here No Less Human

Survival of the fittest

Will you take me as I am?

Now that you have seen the scan.

You fear I could be born deficient

Is my presence not sufficient?

Will you love me and accept me

Or will you callously reject me

Focus not on my defect,

Please accept and don’t reject.

What about the blind and lame

Surely they deserve a name

If only the perfect may be born

What you practice is profane 

Patrick Buckley        

European Parliament Contempt for National Sovereignty

The European Parliament has once again shown its contempt for the sovereignty of member states of the European Union and additionally for family rights and the rights of the child, by introducing a resolution castigating Lithuania. The resolution which was debated in the European Parliament today Wednesday 16th Sept. and will be voted on tomorrow, related to a law passed recently by the Lithuanian Parliament to protect minors from inappropriate information.

On 14 July 2009, the Lithuanian Parliament approved an amendment to the national Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effects of Public Information, which will come into force on 1 March 2010. Under this amendment it will be prohibited ‘to directly disseminate to minors […] public information whereby homosexual, bisexual or polygamous relations are promoted’, because it has ‘a detrimental effect on the development of minors’,

The Liberals, Greens. Socialist, and Communist group of the European Parliament tabled 6 identical oral questions to the EU Commission and the EU Council of Ministers attacking the new law and asking them to issue a statement whether or not this amendment to a national law is incompatible with human rights and fundamental freedoms as enshrined in international and European conventions and notably with freedom of expression, The whole tenor of this attack on the Lithuanian law is based on the view that non discrimination policy is more important than the rights of the child or parental rights. There was a refusal to recognize the relevant paragraphs of the international human rights instruments regarding the rights of the child and the rights of the family. Many of the speeches condemned the Lithuanian law however some MEP’s pointed out that the debate was inappropriate and reminded the Parliament that Lithuania is a sovereign nation

A particularly enlightened speech was given by Slovakian MEP Anna Zaborska who told the Parliament

˝In 2006, Slovakia was condemned by the EU institutions because of a freedom of conscience clause in its national legislation. Today a national law from Lithuania which aims to protect minors from sexualisation by society is condemned by the EU institutions.
I consider our meeting to be a manipulation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. This text is not a legally binding instrument. The EU Parliament is ignoring the legitimacy of the national Parliament of a Member State. The EU Parliament also requests an Opinion of the Fundamental Rights Agency, but this Agency has no mandate to assess the legal quality of a national law.

I wonder what the Irish people will think about these procedures in advance of the upcoming referendum on the Lisbon treaty. What else can they think but that soon, Ireland also will be condemned because of its laws that protect the family and life? I profoundly regret that the European Parliament does not respect the basic principles of diversity and national culture, and that we question the protection of children and the right of parents to educate them.˝

The issue will be voted on tomorrow Thursday 17th September

Ending Discrimination in the Womb

Population Research Institute has produced a video promoting the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PreNDA) announced by Congressman Trent Franks last week. If passed, the act will make abortion on grounds of sex or race illegal. This legislation is being supported by prominent members of the black community.