UK Investigative Report for TV Finds Women Pushed into Eugenic Abortions

LONDON, September 19, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A report to air on British television on Sunday called the “Five Live Report: The Terminators?” has found that at least some women are being pressured to abort their children when they are discovered to have defects, even when those defects are correctable.  The program notes that most babies diagnosed in utero to have Down’s Syndrome are killed by abortion.  Professor Hilary Rose, a sociologist with the Open University, notes that medical professionals often assume that mothers will abort children found to have abnormalities and that the practice will extend as more tests are developed to determine other abnormalities.  “That doesn’t seem to me to be a healthy way to run an antenatal service”, she told the BBC.  However, John Harris, a bioethicist at Manchester University, is publicly promoting eugenics, trying to shield the fact that it advocates killing of disabled unborn children by denying the humanity of the unborn.  “Eugenics is the attempt to create fine healthy children and that’s everyone’s ambition,” he says.  “We’re not trying to do this through killing people or eliminating individuals, we’re trying to do this by making choices about which people will exist in the future.”  Harris goes so far as to call those parents who decide to allow their disabled children the right to life, “misguided”.  Disabled activist Bill Albert, from the Council of Disabled People, retorts that society must “face up to what’s going on and not say this is about choice, this is about elimination”.  Some see the current eugenic abortions as simply a more clandestine version of that practiced by the Nazi’s.  “You’re talking about eradicating a whole section of the population” says Mr Albert, “It’s state sanctified eugenics”.  See the BBC report:  https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3120478.stm