{"id":44237,"date":"2014-05-24T02:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_gender-selective_abortion_is_illegal_health_secretary_jeremy_hunt\/"},"modified":"2014-05-24T02:05:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T02:05:40","slug":"telegraph_gender-selective_abortion_is_illegal_health_secretary_jeremy_hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44237","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Gender-selective abortion is illegal, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to announce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hunt is to issue new guidance making it clear to doctors that sex-selective abortion is &#8220;unacceptable and illegal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The health secretary and GMC will close what MPs have described as an &#8220;utterly preposterous&#8221; loophole used by prosecutors to avoid bringing charges.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance is expected to say that doctors who carry out abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby and pre-sign abortion forms are breaking the law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/10850072\/Gender-selective-abortion-is-illegal-Health-Secretary-Jeremy-Hunt-to-announce.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Hunt is to issue new guidance making it clear to doctors that sex-selective abortion is &#8220;unacceptable and illegal&#8221;. The health secretary and GMC will close what MPs have described as an &#8220;utterly preposterous&#8221; loophole used by prosecutors to avoid<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44237\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,101,199,168,104,114,96,98,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}