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Proposals to decriminalise abortion up to 24 weeks will open the door to sex selection of foetuses, campaigners have claimed. An amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill – which is due to [...]

Labour is calling for parents-to-be to be banned from using a blood test to find out the sex of their baby in the early stages of pregnancy. It comes amid fears the test can lead to the [...]

A BBC investigation reveals widespread use of tests to enable sex-selective abortion. Stop Gendercide is calling for the Government to introduce an explicit ban on sex-selective abortion [...]

Labour is calling for a ban on parents-to-be being told the sex of their baby after early blood tests, amid fears it may lead to abortions of girls. The Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) is used [...]

Blood tests used to reveal a baby’s gender are leading to the abortion of unwanted girls in the UK, MPs and charities have warned. Labour MP Naz Shah, shadow women and equalities minister, said [...]

Forcing pregnant women who do not want a child of a particular sex to give birth could harm both the baby and the mother’s mental health, a leading doctors’ union member has said. [...]

‘It is the women’s right to decide. It’s her body. She is the one taking the risks,’ says Wendy Savage. There is no evidence sex-selective abortion is a problem in the UK, [...]

Women should be allowed to have abortions if the baby is the ‘wrong’ sex, claimed an expert at the British Medical Association. Professor Wendy Savage said the law banning terminations based on [...]

Forcing pregnant women who do not want a child of one sex or the other to give birth could harm both the baby and the mother’s mental health, a leading doctors’ union member has said. [...]

Women should be told the sex of the foetus when they are scanned during pregnancy, a senior, retired obstetrician has said. Prof Wendy Savage told the Mail on Sunday that withholding the [...]