{"id":14493,"date":"2025-12-31T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14493"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:39:22","slug":"400-girls-missing-thanks-to-sex-selective-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=14493","title":{"rendered":"400 girls ‘missing’ thanks to sex-selective abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Campaign group Right To Life UK has said that 400 girls are \u201cmissing\u201d in the country due to sex-selective abortions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It follows criticism of advice from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) suggesting that sex-selective abortions are illegal.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Health and Social Care “Sex-selective abortion is illegal in England and Wales and will not be tolerated,” and “sex is not a lawful ground for termination of pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

However, groups such as BPAS, the UK’s largest abortion provider, and the British Medical Association (BMA) have argued that the 1967 Abortion Act does not explicitly ban sex-selective abortion and that if other grounds are legitimately met (such as the impact on mental health) then an abortion in which sex preference is a factor can proceed.<\/p>\n

Right To Life UK pointed to government statistics which suggest that sex-selective abortions may be taking place in Britain, particularly within the Indian community.<\/p>\n

An analysis of statistics from 2017 to 2021 found \u201cevidence of a statistically significant imbalance in the ratio of males to females at birth for children of Indian ethnicity after 2 or more previous births, in England and Wales \u2026 This may indicate that sex selective abortions are taking place”.<\/p>\n

The government report added, \u201cIf so, it is estimated that approximately 400 sex selective abortions may have taken place to female foetuses over the 5 year period from 2017 to 2021. No other evidence suggesting sex selective abortions occurring in the United Kingdom over the period 2017 to 2021 has been found in this analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catherine Robinson, Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, said, \u201cIt\u2019s irresponsible for BPAS to publish advice suggesting that sex-selective abortion is not illegal, because it risks normalising sex-selective abortion and is likely encouraging abortions sought purely because of a baby\u2019s sex.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Robinson warned that women facing pressure from family members to terminate a baby girl may find it harder to resist such demands.<\/p>\n

She added that it was illogical for the government to say that sex-selective abortions are illegal while simultaneously pumping tens of millions of pounds into BPAS.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government must act without delay to cut all funding it provides to BPAS, urgently update legislation to introduce an explicit ban on sex-selective abortion, and must not pursue further changes to legislation, such as those proposed in Scotland, that would likely make this problem much worse,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0(Photo: Getty\/iStock) Campaign group Right To Life UK has said that 400 girls are \u201cmissing\u201d in the country due to sex-selective abortions.\u00a0 It follows criticism of advice from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) suggesting that sex-selective abortions are illegal. According to the Department of Health and Social Care “Sex-selective abortion is illegal in England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2283,1838,1382,4317],"class_list":["post-14493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christian-living","tag-abortions","tag-girls","tag-missing","tag-sexselective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}