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Late term abortion for UK children with down’s syndrome doubles in past 10 years
SPUC ^ | Feb. 14, 2020 | SPUC

Posted on 02/14/2020 12:22:22 PM PST by Morgana

The number of late term abortions carried out past 24 week’s gestation on UK children with Down’s syndrome have doubled in the past 10 years, recent figures have revealed. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communications said: “It is barbaric that a child who may have a disability in the UK can be aborted right up to birth. This practice has no place in a civilised society.”

The recent figures, obtained in response to a parliamentary question by Lord Alton, have revealed that in 2018, the number of UK children aborted past 24 weeks gestation following a possible Down’s syndrome diagnosis increased from 11 in 2009 to 23 in 2018.

In addition, the figures also expose that the number of abortions carried out in the UK following a Down’s syndrome diagnosis have risen by almost 30% over the past decade. Public push back against disability abortion

Recent weeks have witnessed a public backlash against abortion following a disability diagnosis.

Over 1,800 people with Down’s syndrome and their families have signed a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him to insure than abortion for disability will not be permitted in Northern Ireland.

Earlier this year, US states including Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee, urged federal appeal courts to uphold state laws which ban abortion following a diagnosis of Down’s syndrome. Disability late term abortion

The 1967 Abortion Act permits abortion until birth if a baby is suspected of having a foetal anomaly.

Surgical abortions that are carried out in the second trimester of pregnancy involve using a sopher clamp to grasp and rip the limbs of the child. The head is clamped and crushed and the abortionist must assemble the body parts on a tray to ensure no remains are left in the womb.​

Abortions carried out in the third trimester of pregnancy involve administering unborn children with a lethal injection to the heart.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; downsyndrome; england; prolife; trisomy21

1 posted on 02/14/2020 12:22:22 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Because people with better chromosomes are just so much better people, right? How many monsters in human form have had Down syndrome? Well, let’s see.... there’s.....

Oh. The tyrants, mass murderers, and great evil doers NEVER have Down syndrome. So you kill those with it in utero why, exactly?


2 posted on 02/14/2020 12:25:03 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

We live in Spain. A while ago we were walking through town and saw a girl with Down Syndrome sitting outside playing with her tablet. I told my wife she should take her picture because it wouldn’t be long before she never saw anything like that again. It was obvious this girl was loved and nurtured but it was like looking at the last of the dinosaurs. I’m frankly surprised there are any Down Syndrome children born in the UK anymore. The Europeans want to eliminate them entirely.


3 posted on 02/14/2020 12:31:46 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Yaelle

And you wonder why I’m such an advocate for those with Down Syndrome.


4 posted on 02/14/2020 12:35:36 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

A friend of mine’s daughter is 23 and pregnant with her first child. Initial tests indicate the child may have Down’s Syndrome (they have not done amniocentesis yet). It’s not definite yet but it is a very very difficult situation and I don’t know what they are going to do if the child indeed has Down’s Syndrome. I’m praying for my friend and her daughter and the child.


5 posted on 02/14/2020 12:40:33 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Morgana

And it won’t stop here. Any defect will result in an abortion. Every couple will keep trying and aborting until they get the “perfect” child. Sad.


6 posted on 02/14/2020 1:04:09 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Morgana

The final solution for useless eaters.

Why did Britain fight the Nazis?


7 posted on 02/14/2020 1:08:57 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Eugenics and the Nazi program of extermination of psychological/physical undesirables. Because they wanted to be the ones to decide who gets exterminated.


8 posted on 02/14/2020 1:11:03 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: Morgana
Worked with a couple who were told their baby would have Downs Syndrome.

Dad wanted to abort, Mom said No Way.

Baby was born perfectly healthy.

Every day since, Dad has had to look at his daughter, knowing that he once wanted her gone.

9 posted on 02/14/2020 1:17:57 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Iceland has 0 babies born with down’s. One guess why.


10 posted on 02/14/2020 1:42:23 PM PST by bgill
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To: Morgana

The UK has had a cavalier attitude towards abortion for some time, even most Tories are probably pro-death. BTW: the typical U.K. Conservative has the ideology of Michael Bloomberg outside of immigration.


11 posted on 02/14/2020 1:45:26 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: Morgana

Jesus wept.


12 posted on 02/14/2020 2:30:14 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: bgill

“Success” for elimination of a disability is always 100% if you can kill the disabled.


13 posted on 02/14/2020 3:19:57 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child who's got his own." - Billie Holliday)
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To: Morgana

Praying out loud for those souls and for the Holy Spirit to act and stop the atrocity.


14 posted on 02/14/2020 4:16:47 PM PST by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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