HC Deb 08 July 1969 vol 786 cc248-9W
Mrs. Knight

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to ensure that babies aborted in National Health hospitals are not put into incinerators while they are still alive.

Mr. Crossman

The Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929, protects the unborn who have reached the point of viable live birth. If exceptionally a living child were born as the result of an abortion, the normal law relating to live born children applies.