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Dozens of abortions carried out on foetuses with minor imperfections such as cleft lip or club foot
Mail online ^ | February 3, 2013 | Becky Evans

Posted on 02/03/2013 12:00:10 PM PST by Kaslin

Foetuses are being aborted for minor and treatable imperfections such as cleft lip and palate or club foot every year in the UK.

New research suggests that dozens of abortions are carried out but the reasons are not being officially recorded.

Health bosses have admitted there may be 'discrepancies' in their records after European monitoring group Eurocat found the number of abortions for minor abnormalities could be up to three times as high as official statistics show.

According to Eurocat, 157 foetuses were aborted in England and Wales between 2006 and 2010 for cleft lip and palate.

However, the Sunday Times reported that just 14 of those were recorded as such by the Department of Health.

A total of 205 foetuses with club foot were also aborted in the same period.

Both of these abnormalities can be corrected after birth.

A DoH spokeswoman said: 'We are aware that there is a potential discrepancy in figures and are looking into this in further detail.'

Obstetrician Stuart Campbell told The Sunday Times the number of abortions for treatable conditions was 'horrific'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; england; eugenics; europeanunion; unitedkingdom; wales
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I was born with a club foot in 1960 - still have one of the casts they used - about the size of my thumb. I was just telling my mom how I remember her doing my foot exercizes to me every night when I was a toddler. (She would hold my foot and push it in and hold it, release, do it again and again and again.) And how patient she was and how she kept at it night after night.

In my Junior year of High School I took 10th in State in skiing - both my mom and dad were in tears. They said when I was born they, or the doctors, did not know if I would even be able to walk properly.


21 posted on 02/03/2013 1:55:07 PM PST by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

And because of that, they should be aborted?


22 posted on 02/03/2013 1:55:34 PM PST by basil (basil)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This is a sweet very positive Life story (thank you); and wow, does this baby boy have a powerful name or what? And, hey, are those footballs on DP’s suit? Your first Super Bowl Dominic! (Our first son’s first Super Bowl was in 1986... da Bears...) :)


23 posted on 02/03/2013 2:00:08 PM PST by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: basil
I didn't say that, not even close!

Have you read any of my other posts on this thread?

24 posted on 02/03/2013 2:18:05 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

No—you didn’t say that—that was the subject of the article we are discussing.


25 posted on 02/03/2013 2:30:28 PM PST by basil (basil)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

No—you didn’t say that—that was the subject of the article we are discussing.


26 posted on 02/03/2013 2:30:28 PM PST by basil (basil)
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To: basil

Read post # 5.


27 posted on 02/03/2013 2:41:36 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I read it—and all of them. The only thing I took issue was the premise that either club foot or cleft palate was a “minor” condition.

I’m not arguing with you, Swampsniper—I don’t know how we got crossed up.

You are one of my favorite freepers.

Mari


28 posted on 02/03/2013 3:07:11 PM PST by basil (basil)
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To: basil

It depends on the type of clubbed foot. In the case of tendons pulling the foot inward, where the baby was essentially forced to sitting indian style in the womb and then had the feet pushed upward, casting for months may work. For cases where the bones themselves formed at an angle, yes, surgery is necessary.


29 posted on 02/03/2013 5:10:02 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Kaslin
Foetuses are being aborted for minor and treatable imperfections such as cleft lip and palate or club foot every year in the UK.

If you go to China and walk the streets, you will not see one mentally-retarded person. You will see no one in wheel-chairs, you will see no extremely short, nor will you see any deformed people. Given the "one-child" policy, as well as famine as recently as 50 years ago, anyone with suspected birth-defects was considered a "useless eater." Not only were they all aborted, they were killed after birth as well.

30 posted on 02/04/2013 5:25:30 AM PST by PGR88
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31 posted on 02/05/2013 7:45:44 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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