All Party Pro Life

The All Party Pro-Life Group in Parliament is opposed to modern eugenics. The Group is vehemently opposed to the practice of forced abortions, gender selective abortions and forced sterilizations that are practiced in some of our developing countries, often with the increasing and active participation of international abortion providers.

In British law abortion is permissible up to term when; ‘there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.’ (Abortion Act 1967)

Although abortion for reasons of serious disability, are a minority of the overall abortion rate, it is nevertheless a direct and unjust discrimination in our law against people with disabilities if they can be aborted at any point in a pregnancy, whereas the majority of abortions are only legal within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. This is one element of a creeping (and often unconscious) eugenics within British society.

The Group also opposes the more recent development of eugenics in our society which is the screening of human embryos created for IVF. The screening of embryos created in artificial circumstances (which can be gender selective) often involves screening for possible disease and disability. Those embryos considered to be at risk of developing either a specific disease or more generally at risk are destroyed.