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When Daniella Jackson was diagnosed with cancer at five months pregnant her doctors quickly advised her to have an abortion. They said she needed a termination to allow her lung tumour to be removed before it killed her. But the 21-year-old, who is a devout Roman Catholic, refused, saying she felt too close to her [...]

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According to statistics, thousands of women are using the service to terminate unwanted foetuses; in some cases up to nine times. The abortions are understood to cost up to £1,000 every time, with five out of every six repeat terminations being requested by a woman who is unmarried.   In 2010, 189,000 terminations took place, with [...]

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Tania Mirmothari was worried sick. The previous night, the 19-year-old from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, had had yet another drunken one-night stand. Carefree at the time, the following morning she’d woken with a thumping hangover, horrified at the realisation she might be pregnant. There was only one thing for it: Tania went to her local walk-in [...]

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The billionaire father of Linda Evangelista’s baby wanted her to abort their son, her lawyer has claimed as the supermodel meets her former boyfriend in court over childcare support. And taking the stand, François-Henri Pinault admitted he had broken up with the supermodel after discovering she was pregnant four months into their relationship. ‘I didn’t [...]

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Setting out from my home in sleepy Devon, I catch the bus into the nearest big town, where none of the chemists know my family, and buy two expensive pregnancy tests. It’s the summer holidays after I’ve left  school and perhaps my periods have  stopped because I’ve been anxious  about my A-level results. Or perhaps [...]

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A series of suspicious incidents at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country has led the group to believe they have been targeted in an undercover sting operation by anti-abortionists. Clinics for the healthcare provider have reported an escalation in so-called “hoax visits”, in which female clients ask leading questions about sex selection abortions, in interviews [...]

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Due to air next month, it will feature interviews with women undergoing terminations as well as doctors and counsellors at the clinic. Pro-life campaigners criticised the move, saying it amounted to “free advertising” for abortion, but pro-choice advocates welcomed the programme, saying it was a chance for it to be presented in a way that was [...]

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Computer ‘whiz kid’ who broke into the website of Britain’s biggest abortion provider is jailed By REBECCA CAMBER PUBLISHED: 19:58, 13 April 2012 | UPDATED: 13:18, 14 April 2012 Comments (12) Share A computer hacker who broke into the website of Britain’s largest abortion provider to steal the details of 10,000 women was jailed yesterday. [...]

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Abortion is key US political flashpoint as laws tighten COMMENTS (134) Watch Paul Mason’s report on abortion in the US in full US Presidential Election 2012 Battlegrounds 2012 Delegate counter Where do they stand? Running for president? Outside an abortion clinic in Toledo, Ohio, the protesters gather silently. They clutch crucifixes. Some kneel in the [...]

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The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said young doctors are already feeling nervous about becoming involved in abortion services. The Government is to carry out an inspection of more than 250 clinics in England following the Daily Telegraph’s exposure of certain practices, including the abortion of foetuses based on sex. It sparked protests around the [...]

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Vincent Argent, the former medical director of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said that doctors had a “lax” approach to completing paperwork so that women can have abortions. He said: “We used to pre-sign forms, we used to sign forms after the operation, we used to ask the anaesthetist to do it…it was bad practice.” [...]

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Some doctors are breaking the law by “pre-signing” abortion consent forms, the government has said. Spot checks at more than 250 abortion clinics this week found evidence of blank forms being signed in anticipation of patients seeking a termination. The law states that, except in emergencies, two doctors must agree for a woman to have [...]

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Most clinics were visited by the much-maligned Care Quality Commission (CQC) once every few years and a culture of “abortions on demand” appeared to have been introduced by some doctors. However, this culture seems to have been brought to an end when Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, who was shocked by what he read in [...]

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Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), claimed that inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had been diverted from their duty of inspecting standards at instututions such as hosptals. The CQC, however, denied its work had been adversely affected and warned it would be handing evidence of doctors pre-signing [...]

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Up to one in five abortion clinics is suspected of breaking the law and faces a police inquiry following an official investigation ordered by the Health Secretary, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. The regulator conducted a series of unannounced raids on every clinic offering abortions this week and found that a “shocking” number may be [...]

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Dr Raj Mohan was suspended from practising by the GMC’s Interim Orders Panel pending a full investigation of his actions, which were captured on video by undercover reporters for The Daily Telegraph. Dr Prabha Sivaraman and Miss Claudine Domoney have been told by the panel that they “must not authorise any termination of pregnancy or [...]

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A 27-year-old man suspected of hacking the website of Britain’s biggest abortion clinic was arrested on Friday morning. The arrest in the West Midlands follows claims made on Twitter on Thursday that the names of patients who used the British Pregnancy Advisory Service would be made public on Friday. The man, who police say claims [...]

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The hacker, using the pseudonym Pablo Escobar – a notorious Columbian drug baron – claimed to hold the “entire database and contract details” of women who had used the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. He warned the information would be released today. Yesterday the BPAS website was down and carried a message saying it was “underdoing [...]

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A man suspected of computer hacking is being questioned by police after the website of one of Britain’s largest abortion providers was accessed. The 27-year-old claims to have links to hacktivist group Anonymous. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said no medical or personal information relating to women who had received treatment had been accessed. [...]

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The article, which argued newborns and foetuses were only “potential persons” and not “actual persons”, has provoked a storm of protest. Dr Minerva, a research associate at Oxford while being based at the University of Melbourne, said the recent days had been “the worst in my life” after the article attracted widespread attention. “This is [...]

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Two Roman Catholic midwives have lost a legal battle to avoid taking part in abortion procedures because of their “conscientious objections”. Midwifery sisters Mary Doogan, 57, and Concepta Wood, 51, said being forced to supervise staff taking part in abortions violated their human rights. The women had sought to challenge NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde [...]

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The article, which argued newborns and foetuses were only “potential persons” and not “actual persons”, has provoked a storm of protest. The authors, whose piece was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, have received death threats for suggesting that “what we call after-birth abortion (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases [...]

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An academic with links to Oxford University has received death threats after claiming that killing newborn babies is no different to aborting them because they are not ‘actual persons’. Dr Francesca Minerva said that the days since her paper was published in a medical journal have been ‘the worst in my life.’ She said she [...]

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If you write an article proposing that newborn babies be killed, many people will find you morally disgusting. This should be obvious even to a professional philosopher. Yet Julian Savulescu, the editor of the British Medical Journal’s Journal of Medical Ethics, who published such an article, appears outraged himself at the reaction it has provoked. [...]

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The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”. The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born. The journal’s editor, Prof Julian [...]

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The article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, says newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life”. The academics also argue that parents should be able to have their baby killed if it turns out to be disabled when it is born. The journal’s editor, Prof Julian [...]

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Doctors should have the right to kill newborn babies because they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted by their mothers, an academic with links to Oxford University has claimed. Francesca Minerva, a philosopher and medical ethicist, argues a young baby is not a real person and so killing it in the first days after [...]

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Several commentators on last week’s revelations about clinics offering abortions on the basis of the sex of the unborn baby have repeatedly claimed that abortion for sex selection is illegal. But that is far from clear. Some appear to have confused abortion with embryo selection. The latter is regulated by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology [...]

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A counsellor at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) in Willesden, north London, admitted that she would forge paperwork so the woman could have the procedure. When the woman said she wanted an abortion because “it’s a girl and I have a girl already, and I really want a boy”, the counsellor told her that [...]

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The Calthorpe Clinic has been exposed for illicitly completing abortion forms amid concerns that doctors are not properly consulting patients before agreeing to terminations. A doctor at the clinic in Edgbaston, Birmingham, was also secretly filmed offering to arrange an abortion for a woman who said she wanted to terminate her pregnancy because the baby [...]

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WOMEN seeking abortions in Virginia may soon have to undergo an invasive ultrasound scan first – a move supposedly designed to inform the women but which some claim aims to stigmatise them instead. If a new senate bill is passed in Virginia this week, ultrasound would be performed in order to “more accurately determine gestation [...]

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Doctors at British clinics have been secretly filmed agreeing to terminate foetuses purely because they are either male or female. Clinicians admitted they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the abortions even though it is illegal to conduct such “sex-selection” procedures. The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is to report the abortion clinics and doctors [...]

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The Daily Telegraph has carried out an investigation into sex-selection abortions after concerns were raised that the procedures were becoming increasingly common for cultural and social reasons. Acting on specific information, undercover reporters accompanied pregnant women to nine clinics in different parts of the country. In three instances doctors were recorded offering to arrange terminations [...]

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The discovery that sexually selected termination of pregnancy is available in Britain should surprise no one; and if we are surprised, it can only be because we have not been paying attention for the past 40 years. Sexually selected termination is, after all, the natural result and logical extension of the way the Abortion Act [...]

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Doctors at British clinics have been secretly filmed agreeing to terminate foetuses purely because they are either male or female. Clinicians admitted they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the abortions even though it is illegal to conduct such “sex-selection” procedures. Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, said: “I’m extremely concerned to hear about these [...]

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By a 65-32 vote, the Republican-dominated House of Delegates gave its green light to 11th hour revisions proposed by Governor Bob McDonnell to tame the furor over the so-called “informed consent” legislation. In its original form, every Virginia woman seeking an abortion would have had to submit to a transvaginal ultrasound, in which a probe [...]

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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley last night launched an urgent investigation after it emerged that doctors were offering mothers abortions based purely on the gender of their unborn child. Doctors working for NHS and private clinics were said to be agreeing to carry out the terminations despite the fact that ‘sex-selection’ is against the law. They [...]

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When Jennie Linn McCormack walks the streets of Pocatello, the town in southern Idaho where she was born, raised, and still lives, she attempts to disguise her face by covering it with a thick woollen scarf. It doesn’t really work. In the supermarket, people stop and point. At fast-food outlets, they hiss “it’s her”! In [...]

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Everything is bigger in Texas. Including, it seems, the degree of influence which the anti-abortion lobby is able to exert over both lawmakers and members of the judiciary. A federal judge has allowed the state to begin enforcing a high-profile new law which will require physicians who perform terminations to first either show, or describe, [...]

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Labour health spokesman Diane Abbott was caught up in a new row last night over claims that she fell asleep during a Westminster debate on abortion laws. The allegations surfaced after Ms Abbott’s shock resignation from a  parliamentary committee established to consider whether women should  be offered independent advice when deciding whether to terminate a  [...]

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Private clinics that carry out abortions for profit are to get the  go-ahead to promote their services with TV and radio adverts. Advertising watchdogs will trigger a storm of controversy by announcing the decision on Monday after years of argument, the Mail can disclose. Pro-life campaigners reacted with fury, saying the move would trivialise human [...]

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Nearly one in three of pregnancies in Europe are terminated, according to an international group of scientists. The startling statistic came to light as Dr Gilda Sedgh from the Guttmacher Institute in the U.S, revealed the data from the latest global abortion study. According to the research, the long-term decline in the rates of abortion [...]

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Mary Doogan, 57, and Concepta Wood, 51, told NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde they were not prepared to delegate, supervise or support staff who were looking after patients through “the processes of medical termination of pregnancy”. Their position was rejected by officials and they hope to have the ruling set aside in a judicial review. [...]

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Two doctors have been charged with murder after police discovered 35 late-term aborted fetuses in a freezer at a medical clinic. The tiny bodies were found in the Maryland practice of Dr Steven Brigham, who was arrested in New Jersey on Wednesday night. His colleague, Dr Nicola Riley, was also arrested in Utah. Both are [...]

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Doctors charged with murder after 35 late-term fetuses are discovered stashed in clinic freezer

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Dozens of unborn babies were aborted in 2010 by women expecting multiple births but who wanted fewer children, it has been reported.

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More than 100 unborn babies were aborted last year by women expecting twins, triplets or even quintuplets but who wanted to give birth to fewer children, official figures disclosed to The Telegraph show.

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The Uruguayan Senate has passed legislation to decriminalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

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The womb ought be the safest place for a baby to be and should be protected by law, writes Nicholas Windsor.

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The law legalising abortions in Britain should never have been passed, the Queen’s first cousin says today as he launches a campaign against “subversive” attempts to make the procedure a human right.

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