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Members of [Britain's] Parliament [MPs] urge Government to monitor gender of aborted babies [Excerpts]

MPs have called on the Government to compile statistics on the gender of aborted babies in a Parliamentary debate this week.

It comes after health minister, Earl Howe, revealed that birth statistics in the UK show that abortions on the basis of gender could be taking place in some communities.

The findings - disclosed in response to a Parliamentary question posed by cross-bench peer Lord Alton - were made after the Government analysed the boy-girl ratios of births between 2007 and 2011.

Officials admitted that a larger number of males than females were being born in some communities in the UK.  But the Department of Health has refused to release information on the nationalities of women who tend to give birth to more boys, stating that it was not in the "public interest" to do so.

An undercover investigation by the Daily Telegraph last year uncovered evidence of doctors sanctioning abortions after women said that they were unhappy with the gender of their baby, even though sex-selection abortions are illegal under the 1967 Abortion Act.

A Ten Minute Rule Bill calling for the Government to monitor the sex of aborted babies was presented jointly by Conservative MP Fiona Bruce and Labour MP Jim Dobbin, with its aims being supported by more than 50 MPs.

During the debate, Mrs Bruce referred to the common practice of sex-selection abortion in India and China where there is a cultural preference for boys over girls, stating that the Government must be willing to challenge such practices in the UK through “open-dialogue”.  

She said: “It is a tragedy that in some countries the words ‘it’s a girl’ are not always a source of joy but of danger; the illegal abortion of baby girls and the resultant imbalance in the number of young men and women in certain parts of these countries is surely something which no one in this country can condone.

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[TBC: It has always been a mystery why modern feminists are so supportive of abortion when again and again it is shown that "elective" abortions overwhelmingly involve ending the lives of females.]