700+ IVF babies aborted

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: IVF babies aborted: Most terminations were within weeks of the test-tube baby being implanted after a change of heart by the mothers. A small number were due to medical complications.

Up to 50 IVF babies are terminated each year as well as a smaller number of abortions for women who used other fertility treatments such as donor insemination. In the 19 years since the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has kept statistics, 749 IVF pregnancies have been aborted. Half the terminations were a result of relationship breakdowns or fears over motherhood. The most common medical reasons were Downs Syndrome and foetal abnormalities.

Josephine Quintavalle, of campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: “A baby is not a designer object to be rejected on second thought.”