Abortion Advocates Still Hiding Behind 'Privacy' Laws

A Pro-Life WIN in the UK!  From BBC News:

The Department of Health has lost a court battle to keep secret some details on abortion statistics.

Be sure to watch the video embedded in the BBC article.  Josephine Quintavalle of ProLife Alliance says people want to know why.  The public, in the UK and the US, have a right to know why abortions are being performed.

The privacy argument is nothing new, it's what Roe v Wade in the United States was based on.

In an article in the Guardian, the author, Kate Smurthwaite,  argues that a woman's privacy will be put at risk by allowing late term abortion stats to be publicly released. 

In 2009, there were 136 abortions in the UK among women who had passed 24 weeks of pregnancy. Numbers are fairly consistent – around the 130 mark each year. The range of conditions involved is very wide, predominantly involving a variety of brain and cardiac abnormalities; most common foetal abnormalities, such as Down's syndrome, are typically revealed earlier in pregnancy at the 12 or 20-week scan. As such, many conditions will be listed with only one or two cases a year, effectively providing one individual woman's medical record.

Kate admits that the majority of fetuses with Down Syndrome, are diagnosed before they would be considered 'late term'.  The fact is, 90% of Down Syndrome babies are aborted, most prior to late term status.  This is only a portion of what abortion advocates want to hide.  There are other cases of non-fatal fetal abnormalities such as cleft lip and palate.  In the UK, these are often recorded as 'social abortions', never revealing the true nature of the anomaly.

In the case of Down Syndrome related abortion in the UK, Mail Online reports:

The National Down's Syndrome Cytogenetic Register said that over the last four years fewer than half of abortions of Down's babies were recorded properly.

It is so important to track trends in Down Syndrome diagnoses, as well as other physical anomalies.  Abortion advocates are skewing the numbers, by hiding the data.  This needs to stop.  No one wants to know the name and address of the women that aborted, or the abortionist that performed the act.  But we deserve accurate data relating to abortions.