26 unborn babies in the last nine years have been killed for having cleft lip or palate.
Posted on 07/22/2011 4:18:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
26 unborn babies in the last nine years have been killed for having cleft lip or palate.
LONDON, July 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After a five-year legal battle, a pro-life group in the United Kingdom has succeeded in obtaining detailed statistics about eugenic abortions from the UK’s Department of Health (DoH).
The statistics reveal that thousands of babies have been killed for eugenic reasons, some of them (26 in the last nine years) for as minor a condition as cleft lip or palate, seven of them in 2010. These abortions were conducted under “Ground E,” the rule that allows any child at any gestational age to be killed whom doctors believe have a “substantial risk” of having a “serious” disability.
The UK’s Department of Health has refused since 2003 to reveal details about the eugenic abortions that are being committed in the country, arguing that the women involved could possibly be identified. However, the campaign group ProLife Alliance went to court in 2005 demanding that the figures be released. The High Court ruled against the department in April this year, but the figures were only released earlier this month.
In total, nearly 18,000 babies were aborted between 2002 and 2010 on the grounds of suspected disability. 1,189 were killed after the upper legal gestational age limit of 24 weeks. The figures show that these include 482 killed for Down’s syndrome in 2010 alone. In the same year, 181 abortions were attributed to musculoskeletal problems such as club foot, while 189 unborn children killed for anencephaly and 128 for spina bifida.
“The Pro-life Alliance is opposed to all abortion at any stage in pregnancy, but terminating the lives of babies at gestational ages when they could survive is always particularly horrifying,” said a spokesman for ProLife Alliance, Julia Millington.
“We have always argued that if these abortions are permitted under law, there should be no attempt whatsoever to hide details of the numbers or justifications.”
Under current law, abortion is legal for any reason or none up to 24 weeks gestation. A recent legislative attempt to amend the Abortion Act 1967 to lower the gestational age limit for early term abortions resulted in a backlash in which age-limit restrictions were lifted for eugenic abortion.
Ann Furedi, the head of one of the UK’s most lucrative abortionist groups, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, has called the campaign to release the statistics an example of the “vindictiveness” of pro-life activists.
“Abortion for foetal anomaly is legal. Behind every one of these figures are doctors and nurses who deserve our admiration and support, and a couple who have often lost a much-wanted pregnancy.”
However, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children pointed out that the figures show that between 2001 and 2010, the number of abortions on the ground of disability rose by one-third, 10 times the increase in abortions generally.
SPUC’s Anthony Ozimic said, “It is clear that legal abortion is a system which discriminates, fatally, against the disabled.”
Responding to Furedi, Ozimic said it is misleading to refer to eugenic abortion as “losing” a pregnancy.
“It is grossly misleading of Furedi to imply that aborted babies are merely ‘lost’, as one might describe a miscarriage.” He called Furedi’s comment “extremist” and said that no abortion is ever medically necessary.
“Abortion for foetal anomaly is legal. Behind every one of these figures are doctors and nurses who deserve our admiration and support, and a couple who have often lost a much-wanted pregnancy.”
What a sick and twisted bitch!
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OMG... this is horrific. God Bless those poor babies!
To try to be fair, I looked for a decent picture of this woman - and failed.
I don't think she has to worry about becoming pregnant, wanted or otherwise. It's sad though that anyone would look on healthy unborn children and those who can be corrected to meet the standards for "perfect" as merely a source of income. I have quite a few children, but I would take another child or another dozen, even "imperfect" babies, to save their lives. None of these elective abortions is what Ann Furedi describes as a "much-wanted pregnancy". They are mere lifestyle adornments that are rejected like the second best supermarket apple over the slightest blemish.
Conversely, there are medically necessary abortions, and a dear friend had one - in her case for a tubal pregnancy. Those are rare though, nowhere near common enough to support this sick and twisted woman in the lifestyle that British taxes currently provide.
G-d is in control.
Our Lord knows about pandering, Matthew 6: 5-8.
Compare the same in the Catholic Douay Bible.
Our Lord knows about pandering, Matthew 6: 5-8.
So troll, I see you support abortion as well as sodomite "marriage."
On the basis of not being inconvenienced, what shall liberals say to gays aborted because parents want their only child to give them grandchildren, or parents aborting children with the wrong coloring?
Fortunately for the literary pantheon of England, Lord Byron (club foot) was born in the 18th century. Then, of course, there is Stephen Hawking - another important intellect who would likely have failed to make the eugenics grade in the minds of these busy little self-anointed crypto-fascist social engineers. I find it ironic that such individuals openly sneer at religion and morality, but apparently do so enjoy the feeling of the divine mantle upon their own shoulders.
Sigh.
Thanks for your efforts.
BTW . . . given the times we live in . . . I want to take this opportunity to appologize for any and all excesses in my exchanges with RC’s hereon over the years.
Witness the first two videos here, for example . . .
http://www.bibleprophecyman.com/
I haven’t pinged everyone I might have—just some I thought of off the top of my head. However, the following is meant to be all inclusive.
I’m not, per se appologizing for my perspective—which I believe to be more Biblical and correct than yours—else I’d have yours or at least a different one! LOL.
And, I’m not per se appologizing for doing what I could think of doing to try and wake folks up to the Biblical Truths as I see them.
However, I DON’T PRETEND TO HAVE DONE SUCH THINGS PERFECTLY.
And while I earnestly tried extremely hard to write out of a caring heart for everyone—I’m certain I couldn’t even do that perfectly.
For all my flaws of the flesh; reacting out of flesh; any pontificating out of ego needs vs Biblical mandates etc. I appologize, repent and seek your forgiveness for.
I seriously and honestly seek to leave this mortal existence as clear and free spiritually in all my relationships as it is within my power to do.
I hope you are not planning on needing to have everything squared away any time soon.
I mean, it’s good to keep one’s accounts current and all, but ...
As far as the subject of this thread is concerned, may God have mercy on us all. It is literally dreadful
I have tried to keep relationships/accounts clear for decades.
However, the next severa months through the end of Nov by all accounts of recent collections of puzzle pieces
SOUND LIKE
lots of things may well break loose . . .
from attacking Lybia with ground forces followed by attacking Syria and Israel attacking Iran . . . followed by Russia and China joining the frey in attacking CONUS
to the Rapture . . .
At a minimum, I don’t expect the USA that rings in the New Year to be the familiar one we are somewhat used to . . . given the globalists destructiveness etc.
Anyway==thanks for your kind reply.
May God have mercy on us, indeed.
That is so sad.I have a first couisn that was born with a double cleft lip and cleft palate.He’s in his late 30’s now and you’d never know by looking at him that there was ever anything wrong.
They (and we) would baulk at that.
Though, the parents of such children SHOULD get societal (read government)help -- I'm normally against welfare, but I know parents who have to raise kids with special needs and it is hard, a lifetime's job. We can't take away the stress, but monetary help can be very much needed
Are you even attempting to intimate that God is responsible for this woman achieving massive increases in abortions?
By this logic, we should go shoot everyone who does not pass a political, intelligence, and physical ability test. What a bunch of self loathing opportunists. How much do you have to hate the human race to do something like this? Well, we have had Quislings throughout time who sell out their own...
I hope you’re not seriously ill?
My 32 yr old daughter is struggling to keep her 5 month pregnancy, her first, going in spite of a burst hernia in her back. Her commitment is for baby Acacia to be born, regardless the consequences to herself. She has my continuous prayers and absolute admiration.
Several medical techs have encouraged her to abort. She is adament about this baby surviving and thriving.
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