§ Lord Braine of Wheatleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they regard the deliberate abortion of female babies as a matter of clinical judgment.
Whether they will implement the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women: Platform for Action which called for action by governments to "Eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child… which result in harmful and unethical practices such as prenatal sex selection…compounded by the increasing use of technologies to determine foetal sex, resulting in abortion of female foetuses"; and, if not, why not.
§ Baroness CumberlegeThe Abortion Act 1967, as amended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, does not permit abortion on the grounds of the sex of the foetus alone and such practices would be unlawful.