Almost 190,000 unwanted babies a yr are aborted in England and Wales underneath the 1967 Act which says that terminations can get area legally if two medical professionals agree in good faith that the physical or mental well being of the girl or youngster is at risk.
Ministers have admitted that less than half of girls who have abortions now see both of the medical professionals face-to-encounter just before being offered the go-ahead and new proposals contained in a Government consultation propose that it is not even a legal necessity for medical professionals to give individual requests any energetic believed prior to approving them.
“What this does, by successfully bypassing the medical professionals and leaving them as a rubber stamp overseeing the method, is erodes those protections [of the Act],” said Dr Peter Saunders, Chief Executive of the Christian Healthcare Fellowship.
“The selection about no matter whether an abortion should be carried out calls for fairly a whole lot of specialist health care understanding due to the fact you acquired to affirm on a statutory document that the danger of continuing with the pregnancy than that of possessing an abortion to the mother’s mental or physical overall health.
“I never believe that is a decision that a nurse can effortlessly make in a hectic abortion clinic that removes protection even more from the woman and most importantly the unborn child that the Act was initially meant to shield.”
New Government guidelines will enable "rubber stamping" of abortions
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