Reply to: NHS and social services take the strain as usual

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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

He doesn't sound like that kind of Dad anyway

[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.

[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

[ChimpMaster]

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

[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!!

[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

[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?

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[oracleslave]

indian culture 500,000 female abortions a year!

Chinese are similar. From a book I read a while ago (50 facts that should change the world) :

China has 44 million missing women. For every 100 baby girls born in China in 2000, there were 116.8 baby boys. In China and India, sex-selective abortions are illegal but still common. China's 'one child' policy has meant that many births go unreported; these unregistered children won't be able to, for example, go to school or receive state-funded healthcare.

[trsisko]

indian culture 500,000 female abortions a year!

[crack_ho]

Is there not a case for child neglect that they can be charged with?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Can you imagine the footure, with Designer babies available at your local Tesco...

I think they’re already here. Unfortunately they are all “Value” brands.