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This report is disturbing yet revealing.

Drudge Report - Those with conditions that can usually be corrected medically - such as deformed feet and cleft lips and palates - are instead being terminated.

And the number of abortions of Down's syndrome babies now outstrips live births, despite the fact that those with the condition can live a long and fulfilling life. As screening techniques improve, the trend is likely to grow - horrifying pro-life campaigners.

'These figures are symptomatic of a eugenic trend of the consumerist society hell-bent on obliterating deformity - and at what cost to its own humanity? ' said ethicist Jacqueline Laing, of London Metropolitan University. 'We are obliterating the willingness of people to accept disability. Babies are required to fit a description of normality before they are allowed to be born.'

The figures for 2002 - the latest available - from the Office for National Statistics show more women than ever are choosing to terminate babies with potential handicaps, with such abortions rising 8 per cent in a year.

It has renewed fears that strict laws on termination due to disabilities are being flouted by doctors.

The 2002 figures show five babies were aborted because they had deformed feet, and a sixth because of a cleft lip and palate.

In 2000 and 2001, nine babies were aborted due to cleft lip and palate, while a further two were aborted for cleft lip alone.

Church of England curate Joanna Jepson, who has spearheaded calls for an investigation into the abortion of a 28-week-old unborn baby with cleft palate in Herefordshire in 2001, said: 'These statistics are horrifying and show the highly consumerist attitude which is now pervading human relationships.

This attitude of trial-and-error is what has come of the pro-choice movement. Those in favor of abortion place the value of an unborn baby's life at zero. They care not for it. Women are already getting abortions because they simply do not want the baby, why would it be surprising that women would also get abortions when they don't want the handicaps that come with the baby?

The pro-choice movement has never been about "women's rights" or "women's health." Its about allowing people to take the easy way out. Does the child have a cleft pallet? No problem, just kill it off and try again, right? Forget that the child could have the pallet repaired. Forget that the kid could go on to become the next Einstein or cure cancer. The fact that it has a cleft pallet is inconvenient to the mother, so kill it off. Heck, maybe the mother doesn't want a child right now. No problem, just kill the perfectly healthy little baby off. Wouldn't want the little darling to be getting in the way of its mother's plans now, would we?

A life is created from the very moment a child is conceived in the mother's womb. That child has just as much of a right to live its life as you do. You do not have the "right" to end that child's life simply because its life is inconvenient to yours.