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Posted on 10/21/2007 9:26:13 AM PDT by cool2007
More than 100 babies with minor disabilities, such as a cleft palate or club foot, were aborted in one area of England in a three-year period, statistics reveal.
The data records that 54 babies with club feet, 37 with cleft palates or lips, and 26 with extra or webbed fingers or toes were aborted in south-west England between 2002 and 2005.
The figures, provided by the South West Congenital Anomaly Register, have heightened concerns over the number of babies aborted due to minor defects which could be corrected with simple surgery. advertisement
Club feet, one of the most common birth defects in Britain, affects around 700 children every year.
It results in the feet pointing downwards and inwards, but it can be corrected without surgery using splints, plaster casts and boots
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The problem in the UK is socialist medicine, it is cheaper to kill them than it is to repair them.
Goodness, my husband was born with a club foot. He is fine, and never had any problem other than having to wear a special shoe thing as an infant. Goodness, what sort of person aborts a healthy baby with a correctable problem? People who probably shouldn’t be parents anyway, but I’m sorry a poor child has to pay the price for it.
susie
we value the lives of illegal alien babies, not our own.
And clubbed feet is not a terrible birth defect. My daughter was born with it, and it was 14 months in corrective casts. She’s a preschooler now, and no one could ever tell there was anything wrong.
I found out about the diagnosis, had all the data before us, and had her in front of an orthopedist at 4 days old. Killing her never even would have occurred to us.
James Watson was recently suspended from his position for saying blacks are inferior intellectually.
No one cared that he said he would have aborted his son if there had been pre-natal tests for severe epilepsy.
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