Doctors’ anger over medical body’s call to ‘abort Down’s babies’ because it costs too much to care for them

Oct 30, 2016 | Media

More than 100 doctors, nurses and other medics have signed letter
It attacks the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Bridget Jones actress Sally Phillips also branded suggestion as ‘dark’

Doctors have accused a medical body of suggesting that unborn babies with Down’s syndrome should be aborted because it will cost too much to care for them.

More than 100 doctors, nurses and other medics have signed a letter attacking the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists for saying the NHS should calculate the ‘cost effectiveness’ of supporting those with the condition.

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