By Tania Steere Doctors will be prosecuted for performing sex-selective abortions, the Department of Health will warn today. They will be reminded the practice is ‘unacceptable and illegal’, as Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the General Medical Council closes a ‘loophole’ used by prosecutors to avoid bringing charges against doctors who carry out abortions based on the sex of the foetus. The guidance is expected to draw a line  under the issue, making it clear that doctors who pre-sign abortion forms and carry out abortions based on gender are breaking the law and will be prosecuted. Health minister Jeremy Hunt will today warn doctors that performing gender-selective abortions is 'unacceptable and illegal'
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Minister of State will remind doctors gender-selective abortions are illegal
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Jeremy Hunt's guidance to make it clear doctors performing abortions based on gender are breaking the law and will be prosecuted
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Comes following CPS ruling in September which said it would not be in the 'public's interest' to prosecute doctors carrying out the terminations
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That, combined with the @placeholder ruling led to concerns that the practice was effectively legalised.