Daily Mail, UK - The ethical storm over abortions has been renewed as it emerged that terminations are being carried out for minor, treatable birth defects.
Late terminations have been performed in recent years because the babies had club feet, official figures show.
Babies are being aborted with only minor defects.
Other babies were destroyed because they had webbed fingers or extra digits.
Such defects can often be corrected with a simple operation or physiotherapy.
The revelation sparked fears that abortion is increasingly being used to satisfy couples' desire for the 'perfect' baby.
A leading doctor said people were right to be 'totally shocked' that abortions were being carried out for such conditions.
Campaigners warned we are turning into a society that can no longer tolerate imperfection. Doctors were recently told they can now screen IVF embryos to try to weed out inherited cancers.
Ethical groups fear parents are opting for abortions because they are not told of the support and help available if they continued with the pregnancy.
Details of the terminations emerged as new figures revealed an alarming rise in the use of an abortion pill that has been linked to 10 deaths.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that between 1996 and 2004, 20 babies were aborted after 20 weeks because they had a club foot.
Club Foot, for those that do not know, is a condition that Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skating gold medalist in 1992, and Tom Dempsey, who holds the record for the longest field goal kick in the NFL like 30 years ago, both were born with. But apparently, this condition is sooooo terrible that we should have just killed Mrs. Yamaguchi and Mr. Dempsey at birth because their life wasn't worth living...
But really, the culture surrounding abortion only leads to abuses like this. What is the difference between my wanting to kill my baby because he'll inconvenience me with physical disabilities and my wanting to kill my baby because I can't afford both him and a new Mercedes... This is the culture we live in and it is absolutely sick.