Contact your MP about huge bill for 'gender-abortion' legal action
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23-year-old Aisling Hubert has been ordered to pay £47,000 in costs
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Yesterday's Mail on Sunday reported on the huge legal bill now facing 23-year-old Aisling Hubert, following her attempt to bring to justice two doctors who were filmed offering 'gender-abortion'.
Aisling needs your help. Please contact your MP and ask them to raise the case with government ministers. Aisling only took action to pursue justice for unborn baby girls after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) refused to prosecute. Now she is being punished. She cannot pay the costs herself.
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The Christian Legal Centre hasn't charged Aisling a penny for the support we've given her. This huge bill is money that the courts have ordered her to pay - including a total of £36,000 to the two doctors who were filmed offering 'gender-abortion'!
You can read a summary of Aisling's story below. Beneath that you can find details of how to contact your MP and suggestions of what you might say.
Please take action. Aisling needs you to stand with her in her quest for justice for unborn children.
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Aisling's quest for justice
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When Aisling Hubert discovered that doctors had been filmed, during an undercover investigation by a national newspaper, offering to abort babies simply because they were girls, she was horrified but assumed that justice would be done.
So, like many others, she was shocked when the CPS announced that despite finding sufficient evidence to prosecute two of the doctors, it was not in the "public interest" to do so.
Aisling couldn't leave things there. She is passionate about speaking up for unborn children and so she decided to take action.
With help from the Christian Legal Centre, she launched private prosecutions against the two doctors. It was an unusual step but one Aisling felt that she had to take.
Initially Aisling met with success. Both doctors were summonsed to appear in court to answer charges.
Then things started to get harder. Aisling needed the full video footage from the newspaper investigation.
The CPS had the footage but refused to release it to Aisling, and a judge sitting in Manchester Crown Court refused to order it into evidence.
That was hard to fathom but what happened next was even more distressing.
The CPS intervened in the case, took it over and dropped it.
The action that Aisling had taken as a last resort to bring the doctors to justice, was suddenly closed down.
But the biggest shock was still to come. The court ordered Aisling to pay the doctors. That's right, Aisling was told to pay the doctors who had been filmed offering gender-abortion.
Aisling has been ordered to pay a total of £36,000 to the two doctors. On top of that, Aisling faces a bill of £11,000 for legal action challenging the CPS' decision not to prosecute the doctors.
That's a grand total of £47,000!
Don't forget that the Christian Legal Centre hasn't charged her a penny. We have offered our support without cost. The £36,000 is what Aisling has been told to pay to the doctors and their lawyers.
Aisling cannot pay this huge sum.
She now faces another court hearing. The court could reduce the total costs, agree a gradual payment schedule, or impose a term of imprisonment. The Christian Legal Centre will of course continue to stand with Aisling.
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'Now I am being punished'
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As Aisling says, "It feels as though I am being punished by the legal establishment for exposing its reluctance to challenge gender-abortion.
"These two doctors were filmed offering gender-abortion. I sought to bring them to justice. Now I am being punished and told to pay a huge sum to them. Where is the justice in that? It is completely immoral."
"This isn't just about abortion, it's about our justice system. Private prosecution is an important check and balance on state power. It allows private citizens to fight for justice when the state apparatus has failed or turned a blind eye. But these massive costs will make it impossible for people like me in the future,"
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Contact your MP about Aisling's case
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Aisling needs your help.
Please contact your MP (find contact details by searching here) and tell them about the huge costs that Aisling faces because of her efforts to bring 'gender-abortion' doctors to justice.
- Ask your MP what they think about the practice of 'gender-abortion' in the UK.
- Ask your MP what they think about the fact that Aisling is facing such huge costs for taking her action to challenge 'gender-abortion'.
- Ask your MP to write to the Attorney General asking for his view on the costs that Aisling faces and on the CPS' behaviour in refusing to release the video footage and in intervening in the case and dropping it.
- Ask your MP to write to Nicola Blackwood MP at the Department of Health asking for her view on the treatment of Aisling. Nicola Blackwood is a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and has responsibility for abortion policy.
You may want to include links to media coverage of the case, for example:
- Mail on Sunday: Woman's £47,000 bill over sex-selective abortions
- The Sunday Times: Pro-lifer in court bid to prevent ‘gender abortion’
- Telegraph: Doctor to appear in court in UK’s first gender abortion prosecution
When you receive a response from your MP, please let us know what they say.
Thank you for taking action.
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