NHS and social services take the strain as usual

[crack_ho]

indian culture 500,000 female abortions a year!

Its interesting that in hospitals in certain areas of the UK they will not state the sex during the ante natal scans. I assume this must be the case for this couple as surely they would have aborted as it appears that abortion is possible in India.
I assume in their country of origin their is not a welfare state to support these gender-wronged children.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

If they have any sense, they'll already have left the country because if the Sun finds out where they are before the Police do (which let's face it, is quite likely), they'll be lynched.

[BrilloPad]

Its interesting that in hospitals in certain areas of the UK they will not state the sex during the ante natal scans. I assume this must be the case for this couple as surely they would have aborted as it appears that abortion is possible in India.
I assume in their country of origin their is not a welfare state to support these gender-wronged children.

A very good case for abortion laws to be tightened. Current limit 24 weeks? Babies are born earlier than that and survive.

IMO abortion limit should be 13 weeks.

[Churchill]

A very good case for abortion laws to be tightened. Current limit 24 weeks? Babies are born earlier than that and survive.

IMO abortion limit should be 13 weeks.

You're a bloke so wtf has it got to do with you anyway?

[Ardesco]

A very good case for abortion laws to be tightened. Current limit 24 weeks? Babies are born earlier than that and survive.

IMO abortion limit should be 13 weeks.

Maybe so but babies born before 30 weeks are likely to have sever problems in later life and babies born before 25 weeks will have severe physical and/or mental issues later in life.

I'm not suggesting that abortion shouldn't be limited, I would say 24 is far too late. However when should we be saving babies that are born early, and when should we be letting nature take its natural cause and allowing them to die?

You will be hard pressed to find a parent who would be willing to let their premature child die without trying to save them, but at what point are you being cruel to the child for the sake of the parents?

[Bagpuss]

A very good case for abortion laws to be tightened. Current limit 24 weeks? Babies are born earlier than that and survive.

IMO abortion limit should be 13 weeks.

Some women might not know they are pregnant at that time

[Mustang]

Its interesting that in hospitals in certain areas of the UK they will not state the sex during the ante natal scans.

My wife is a sonographer at a hospital with a high number of Muslim patients and they are always asking her what sex it is and the hospital policy is not to say. Some of them even getter aggressive about it!! That makes me mad!!

[ChimpMaster]

This story saddens me greatly. I can't say anything else except that I really, really feel for the poor girls.

[darmstadt]

And I can see an old man of 72 raising 2 young boys! When they're 10 and want dad to come down the park and play footie with them...people like that should be taken out and shot

[DimPrawn]

And I can see an old man of 72 raising 2 young boys! When they're 10 and want dad to come down the park and play footie with them...people like that should be taken out and shot

I'm no Des O'Connor fan either.