Posted on 06/07/2010 3:39:52 PM PDT by wagglebee
LONDON, June 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Figures released under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act show that an average of 80 children conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other artificial means of artificial procreation, are being aborted each year in England and Wales. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government body that regulates artificial reproduction practices, has revealed that some of those aborted were conceived by IVF treatments funded by the country’s tax-funded medical system, the National Health Service (NHS).
Former conservative MP Ann Widdecombe said that the figures showed children are being treated like “designer goods.”
“If the law was applied properly, people wouldn't be able to get an abortion just because they changed their minds,” Widdecombe said.
The figures show that about half of the abortions are performed out for mothers aged between 18 and 34, the age at which it is easier for women to conceive and carry children to term. The figures included those children aborted for “selective reduction,” in which one or more children are killed when too many embryos have survived implantation in the womb.
Prof. Bill Ledger, a member of the HFEA, said, “I had no idea there were so many post-IVF abortions and each one is a tragedy.”
IVF and other artificial means of procreation have been in use in Britain since the technique was pioneered with the birth of Louise Brown, touted in the media as the world’s “first” “test-tube baby,” in 1978. Since then, Britain has led the world in developing the new reproductive technologies, including cloning and genetic manipulation of embryos. The technologies have grown directly out of IVF research.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act was passed in 1990. By 1997, 1 in 80 children (1.2%) born in Britain was the result of IVF treatment.
And if cloning comes along it will get even worse.
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If they didn’t want the babies, why get the IVF in the first place? Not only is this awful, it doesn’t make any sense.
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They want “perfect” babies, the rest they dispose of.
Are these people paid to do this to benefit stem-cell researchers?
I don’t know, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
You know what? I’ll bet Joran VanDerSloot looked like a “perfect baby” when he was born. (Shivering as I type that!) I’m glad I believe in the sovereignty of God!
Troy Aikman, Mia Hamm and Kristi Yamaguchi were all born with very “imperfect” club feet, yet they all reached the pinnacle of the sports world in sports that REQUIRED the use of their feet.
This sort of thing is what’s convincing me that we’re living in the end times.
Molech must be so happy.
Creating babies just to destroy them.
Exactly, this is far more heinous and selfish than aborting an “unplanned” baby.
Satan’s biggest victory is likely convincing people to think of humans as nothing more than a commodity.
Whether it’s designer babies, for harvesting organs, or the *right to die* cr@p, getting people to think of others as having no more value than an old shoe has got to be one of his biggest victories.
>This sort of thing is what’s convincing me that we’re living in the end times.<
You and me both. There just might be more to this 2012 stuff than we imagined.
If you’re disgusted now, wait until babies are hatched in bottles like rats and used for research.
A couple weeks ago my wife made me brownies, she set the temperature on the oven too high by mistake and they got burned, so I threw them out. THAT is how the left views babies.
I don’t fault people for wanting healthy and beautiful babies, but if they’re willing to dispose of the babies that won’t fit their specifications, what kind of parents will they be to the ones they do accept?
I’ve long thought it bizarre that some people were seeking new ways to make babies, even as others were having theirs killed, but the fact that there are individuals who are on both sides of the equation takes the absurdity to a new level.
Exact point. This is the problem with the culture of death.
National Health Plan pays for this human experimentation/exploitation in the UK.
Single mothers with children get cradle to grave tax-funded support.
Men are relegated to sperm donorship - not fatherhood - not responsibility.
Imagine this happening in nature - God must be ready to wash his hands of the human race and give dominion to his other creations - the unspoiled animals.
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