London, 23 feb ( EFE).- some clinics private British accept abortion to pregnant women who do not want to have the baby once know their sex, especially in the case of female fetuses, ensures today the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
In an interview, conducted through recordings with hidden camera, the newspaper tells how some doctors of private centres have access to performing abortions solely motivated by the gender of the fetus, illegal practice in the United Kingdom.
Speaking to the Telegraph, the Minister of health, the conservative Andrew Lansley, expressed its concern over this complaint and indicated that it has begun an urgent investigation thereon.
The newspaper reporters visited, accompanied by pregnant women, gynecological consultations of nine health centres, deprived of the United Kingdom, in which attempted to conclude an operation of abortion because they were not satisfied with the gender of the fetus.
Three of the clinics, the doctors agreed to perform the operation at a price ranging from 200 to 640 pounds (between 240 and 760 euros) and in one of them, even volunteered to falsify the roles of the intervention.
In one case, the eight-week pregnant woman, explained a doctor in a clinic in Manchester (Northern England) wanted to terminate her pregnancy because I was going to have a girl, what Dr. agreed.
In another, a pregnant woman in a male fetus of 18 weeks managed to conclude an operation of abortion in a London clinic under the pretext that, as already had a child, wanted a girl.
A British 1967 act that doctors may terminate a pregnancy up to 24 weeks if the mother’s physical or mental health is endangered, but never to choose the sex of the baby.
2010, In England and Wales occurred in 189.574 operations of abortion, 8 per cent more than ten years ago.
In 2007, a study by the University of Oxford (southern England) pointed out that you between 1969 and 2005 had increased cases of selection of the sex of the baby through abortion, especially in the births of children among the Hindu community established in United Kingdom. EFE
