re: UK: MPs overwhelmingly vote for motion to ban sex-selective abortion

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"The British Medical Association hold yet anther interpretation. They argue that having a child of a particular gender may be a legal and ethical justification for an abortion on the basis that the sex of the child may severely affect the pregnant woman's mental health."
Some campaigners say that the abortion act must protect women who are under often violent pressure from partners to have a male child.
Mrs Bruce added: "I find it deplorable that anyone would be satisfied to provide a sex selective abortion to a woman who after she has had it is then sent afterwards back to an abusive partner. what needs to be addressed in these dire circumstances is the abuse itself. That is one of the aims of this bill."

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Not the US, but what is the justification for this? Is there not a right to abortion in the UK?

Maybe it's just my US/Roe V Wade frame of mind, but if you have a privacy-based right to abortion (in other words, "it's my body leave me the hell alone") how can you justify outlawing selective sex abortions?

The left needs to figure this out, before gay abortions become widespread.