UK bans sex-based abortions

Posted on May 24 2014 - 10:06pm by IBC News

London, May 24 The UK government has issued fresh guidelines to close a legal loophole that allowed sex-based abortions amid reports that several infant girls were “missing” in certain ethnic communities, largely British Asian, who have a cultural preference to a male child.

The updated Department of Health guidance issued yesterday warns that doctors who carry out abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby and pre-sign abortion forms are breaking the law.