CPS dropped sex-selective abortion case because of "political correctness"
?Mandy Sanghera, human rights activist and government advisor, said the woman was put under a lot of emotional pressure and duress to abort her baby girl. Image: The Daily Telegraph
A government aide has told the Daily Telegraph that that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) failed to pursue a case involving an Asian woman whose family forced her to abort her baby for being a girl.
Mandy Sanghera, a human rights activist and a founder of the Foreign Office and Home Office's joint forced marriage unit, said that the CPS dropped the case so as not to appear "racist". When the woman reported the crime, the police did not recognise it as honour based abuse at first, said Ms Sanghera. When the woman said that she wanted to prosecute, the CPS refused to press charges, claiming that it was not in the public interest, and it was a "family matter".
Ms Sanghera said that the woman was put under a lot of emotional pressure and duress to have an abortion that she didn't want.
"She felt [the case had been] abandoned for cultural reasons. Her having that termination was the nail in the coffin after all the psychological abuse. When she went and asked for help she didn't get it."
Had the CPS taken up the case, it could have led to the first prosecution for sex selective abortion in Britain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/11/cps-blinded-by-political-correctness-dropped-sex-selective-abort/
Trump reiterates campaign pledge to appoint pro-life justices
President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated a campaign pledge to nominate Supreme Court Justices who would overturn Roe v Wade, the case which legalised abortion by saying that a woman has a "right to privacy" on abortion.
Mr Trump made the comments on CBS's "60 Minutes". "I'm pro-life", he said to correspondent Lesley Stahl. "The judges will be pro-life." He said that abortion legislation would be decided by individual states if the ruling were overturned.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-11-14/trump-says-same-sex-marriage-is-settled-law-abortion-isn-t-ivhazx17
Increased number of women being hospitalised with IVF complications
Official figures show that 60 women were admitted to hospital with severe ovarian hyper-stimulation syndrome (OHSS) in 2015- a 40% increase from the previous year.
Fertility doctors have warned that the increase could be driven by doctors giving women stronger drugs to harvest more of their eggs. Nick Macklon, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Southampton, believes that recent improvements in embryo and egg freezing technology "may have encouraged clinicians to return to harder stimulation regimens".
OHHS, which is triggered when the ovaries swell up and leak fluid, is potentially life threatening.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/13/increase-in-serious-ivf-complications-raises-concerns-over-use-of-fertility-drugs-ovarian-hyperstimulation-syndrome
Meanwhile, in Australia, a consumer watchdog has found that IVF clinics are misleading coupes about their success rate.