New laws propose ban on pregnant women aborting babies with minor disabilities

May 25, 2020 by Jill

by David Wooding, The Sun:

PREGNANT women will be banned from aborting babies with minor disabilities under proposed new laws.

A cross-party group of MPs have joined forces to bring forward a Bill to end late terminations on the grounds the unborn child has a club foot, cleft lip or palate.

All these minor abnormalities can be easily corrected after birth but hundreds of mothers have had abortions after they showed up in scans after the 24-week legal limit.

The change is being championed by Tory MP Fiona Bruce, whose son was born with a club foot which was corrected by surgery and physiotherapy.

Her Bill, which will get its first reading in Parliament on June 3, has already won the support of 12 MPs from the three largest parties.

If it becomes law, the conditions will cease to be sole grounds for termination up to birth.

All three conditions can be corrected by surgery and non-surgical therapy for clubfoot is now successful in 98 per cent of cases, often achieved in as little as 16 days.

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