LONDON: Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark joined his voice to those expressing concern that the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute two doctors who agreed to perform abortions based on sex selection.
In a statement on September 10, the vice president of the bishops’ conference of England and Wales responded to the CPS decision, handed down last week.
“Many people are rightly very concerned about the CPS decision not to prosecute in the case of the doctors who were willing to conduct abortion as a means of gender selection, and I welcome the intervention of the Health Secretary,” he said.
The archbishop added that abortion “is always an injustice to the child who is unwanted, and sex selection through abortion is just one expression of that injustice.”
It is illegal in Britain to perform abortions for sex selection.
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