'Show women the baby scan' before allowing an abortion, says MP
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 @ 12:19 PM
A MEMBER of Parliament has called for women considering an abortion to be 'forced' to see their first scan photograph of the foetus before being allowed to go ahead.
Leader of the Unión del Pueblo Navarro, Carlos Salvador, from the northern region of Navarra, says instead of bringing in the highly-restrictive proposed abortion reform which will effectively make it impossible to terminate a pregnancy unless the mother's or baby's life or health are at serious risk, the government should keep the existing legislation – passed in 2010 – in force, but provide pregnant women with a sealed envelope containing details of support networks, what an abortion involves, and a photo of the first scan.
Salvador says this will 'make them think about the foetus as a living being', not as a 'non-human object which can be made to appear or disappear by magic'.
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