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LONDON, March 26, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While the Daily Telegraph has revealed that many of the UK’s freestanding abortion facilities are breaking the law – a fact confirmed by subsequent investigations from the government’s Care Quality Commission (CQC) – pro-life advocates say the news is far from surprising. “Pro-lifers have been saying it for decades,” said Anthony Ozimic, the communications manager from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.

Ozimic told LifeSiteNews.com that “the CQC’s findings confirm all the other evidence that abortion is available virtually on demand,” adding that the reason why is obvious: the goal of abortion organizations like Marie Stopes and International Planned Parenthood is not to promote the rights or well-being of women, he said, but to generate profits in the “multi-million pound abortion industry.”

“Access to abortion on demand is supported by private abortion providers and by the abortion lobby. Marie Stopes International have admitted doing illegal abortions in Africa. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) have said that pro-abortion advocates should be prepared to break the law,” he said.

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A series of “stings” by the Daily Telegraph newspaper last month caused a flutter among some parliamentarians when it was revealed that abortion facilities were allowing women to abort because of the child’s sex. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley responded to the revelation saying that the practice of killing a child because she is female was “morally wrong.” Lansley launched a formal investigation that has revealed widespread flouting of the letter of the law.

Fifty of the 250 National Health Service-funded abortion facilities visited as part of the investigation were found to be flouting the law that allows abortion only for a given set of justifications.

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Currently abortion is allowed with the consent of two doctors before 24 weeks gestation to preserve the physical or “mental health” of the mother or of “any existing children,” but only if the child is deemed to be healthy. If an unborn child is suspected of having a disability, he can be aborted up to the final stage of pregnancy.

The Health Department investigation revealed that abortion facility staff members are “regularly” falsifying consent documents to allow abortions without restrictions. It also discovered that women were not receiving “acceptable levels of advice and counseling.”

Investigators reported having found stacks of “pre-signed” forms, a practice Lansley said is criminal and will result in physicians being “struck off” and barred from practice. Lansley said he is “shocked” by the results and that his department is preparing to report doctors and abortion groups to the police.

Lansley told the media, “I was rather shocked by the pre-signing of certificates. We’re talking about doctors who have professional responsibilities and it seems to me that you can’t satisfy your professional and ethical responsibilities.

“I completely understand the law doesn’t require the doctor to have met the woman concerned, but to pre-sign certificates when you don’t even know which woman it relates to and there hasn’t been an assessment, is completely contrary to the spirit and letter of the law.”

After news broke of the Telegraph sting revealing sex selective abortion, however, Ozimic told LifeSiteNews.com that that in his view sex-selective abortion was just the next logical step in an environment that allows effective abortion on demand. It is “the reality of eugenics in modern British medicine,” he said.

Moreover, it has been on public record since 2007 that abortion facilities routinely provide pre-signed consent forms. At that time, Dr. Vincent Argent, the former medical director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, gave evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology committee, saying that the practice was widespread.

When the Telegraph first published their revelations last month, abortion promoters immediately defended sex-selection, saying that the matter of abortion fundamentally comes down to a woman’s choice and that this should not be restricted in any way for any reason. Long-time feminist abortion advocate Marge Berer wrote on her online magazine, Reproductive Health Matters, “Everyone who is pro-choice on abortion should support pro-choice doctors and women seeking abortions, whatever their reasons, even when sex selection may be involved.”

“There are 200,000 abortions every year in Britain, yet the pro-abortion lobby wants the abortion law to be even more liberal,” responded Ozimic. “Maybe that’s because the pro-abortion lobby represents a multi-million pound industry – the abortion industry.

“The government must not only clamp down on individual doctors but must cut its ties to the abortion lobby and the abortion industry.”