Health Minister Caroline Flint has revealed plans to introduce “a “clear and specific ban” on methods of choosing the gender of a baby. Also to be criminalised are methods parents have used to choose the name of their baby. Putting ‘names in hat’, throwing darts at a dartboard, and the much criticised practise of going ‘eeny, meany, miney, moe’ are all to given a mandatory 10 year prison sentence.

 

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