Aborting baby girls proves Britain’s multiculturalism experiment has failed
Why is a leading charity protecting the barbaric tradition of ‘sex-selective’ terminations?
Indeed, there are those who so value sons over daughters that they pressurise the women in their communities to abort female foetuses. This grim practice is called sex-selective abortion, and while most might assume that it only happens in the likes of China and India, it is in fact taking place in Britain too, among both first and second-generation immigrants whose roots lie in the Indian subcontinent.
It is rarely spoken about, but has come to light of late after the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which provides abortions to more than 100,000 women across the UK annually, was criticised for suggesting that termination on the grounds of “foetal sex” was not illegal.
Official advice, however, begs to differ. “This Government’s position is unequivocal: sex-selective abortion is illegal in England and Wales and will not be tolerated,” the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said this week. “Sex is not a lawful ground for termination of pregnancy, and it is a criminal offence for any practitioner to carry out an abortion for that reason alone.”
Campaigners from within the British-Indian community have been quick to speak out against the BPAS, which states on its website: “The law is silent on the matter. Reason of foetal sex is not a specified ground for abortion within the Abortion Act, but nor is it specifically prohibited.”
They have spoken up because they all too often see women being coerced into forced marriages, suffering domestic violence and then being made to terminate pregnancies on the grounds that the baby will not be a boy.
The Government’s own figures indicate the scale of the problem. There was a “statistically significant imbalance” in the ratio of boy to girl births between 2017 and 2021 for children of Indian ethnicity, particularly so in instances of the birth of a family’s third child, analysis by the DHSC has found. This is when the pressure is really on women in such circumstances to produce a son.
“This may indicate that sex-selective abortions are taking place,” the report concluded. “If so, it is estimated that approximately 400 sex-selective abortions may have taken place to female foetuses over the five-year period from 2017 to 2021.”
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