This worrying step towards ‘gendercide’
Mail on Sunday editorial:
In many parts of the world, sex-selective abortion is so widespread that it is known as ‘gendercide’.
Prejudice against female babies has resulted in a mass cull of girls in the womb which will blight those societies for decades.
Surely we do not wish to risk such a miserable outcome, or anything like it, here?
Yet, in a country which rightly insists on the equal worth of women and men, a leading feminist is advocating a policy which may lead there.
Professor Wendy Savage is a distinguished doctor who sits on the council and the medical ethics committee of the British Medical Association.
She thinks that Government guidance clearly outlawing sex-selective abortions is mistaken.
And somehow she has convinced herself that sex-selective abortion is not gender discrimination. In her view, the unborn baby she coldly dismisses as a ‘foetus’ is not protected by sex discrimination laws.