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The consequences do not bear thinking about. Since many parents find out the sex of their baby only at the 20-week scan, Clause 191 risks creating a situation where women, perhaps under coercion, induce their own abortions a couple of weeks later, almost six months into pregnancy. Giving that increasing numbers of babies can now survive outside the womb from 22 weeks, this risks viable babies being aborted purely on the basis of their sex.