I MUST draw to the attention of readers the deplorable decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to intervene and drop the case of Aisling Hubert, a 21-year-old pro life campaigner who launched a private prosecution against two doctors who were filmed offering “gender abortion”, and has also been ordered to pay £25,000 in costs.

Sitting at Manchester Crown Court, Judge Martin Steigers QC, made the costs order after the CPS intervened in the case, forcibly taking it over and dropping it.

This is despite the fact these doctors were filmed by a national newspaper in 2012 offering “gender abortions” (to a client who did not want to have a baby girl). This is illegal in Britain since the baby’s gender is not a legitimate ground under the 1967 Abortion Act.

As a result of this huge injustice, baby girls in the womb remain at risk, and incidentally, where is the voice of feminism when quite clearly baby girls are being aborted because of their sex?

The mark of a compassionate society is to care and defend the rights of the vulnerable and weak, and yet in this case the actions of the CPS and the judge have betrayed these aspirations.

Why is it that when there is such clear evidence of breaking the law and a realistic chance of conviction being secured, that the CPS decided to drop the case?

STEVE JACK Shrivenham