| UK Government Refusing to Release Eugenic Abortion Stats The Information Commissioner, a U.K. government body that promotes access to official information and protects personal information, has accused the Health Ministry of refusing to obey an order to release the numbers of eugenic "terminations" in the UK. "Ground E" of the UK's 1967 Abortion Act allows an abortion on request up to full gestation of children suspected of having a "severe" disability. The Health Ministry has refused to release the information, however, claiming that to do so would endanger the privacy of mothers and abortionists. In the past the numbers on eugenic abortions from the Health Ministry revealed that children were being killed in the womb for "severe" disabilities that were in fact as mild as club foot or cleft palate, a revelation that caused a public backlash against such eugenic abortions. |
December 12, 2008
UK Government Refusing to Release Stats
