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British Police Will Investigate Cleft Palate Abortion

Responding to a complaint by Anglican Rev. Joanna Jepson, police in West Mercia, England, will investigate a 2001 late-term abortion performed on a baby with a cleft palate. Jepson, 27, who herself was born with a cleft palate, was horrified when she learned the baby had been killed for a treatable birth defect.

The unborn baby was over 24 weeks old at the time of the abortion. British law bans abortions after 24 weeks except for a "serious threat to the mother's health, or if the baby would be born with a `serious handicap,'" the Sunday Mercury reported.

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