Pro-life activist Aisling Hubert has lost her case against Dr Prabha Sivaraman and must now pay the £25,000 bill to cover the abortionist’s legal fees.
A Christian and anti-abortion campaigner, Ms Hubert carried a private prosecution against Dr Sivaraman for performing an abortion based on the foetus’ gender.
But last month Dr Sivaraman asked the CPS to step in and examine the evidence again to assess whether the case was still in the public interest. In early April the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped the suit due to “insufficient evidence.”
Judge Martin Steiger QC, presiding at the Manchester Crown Court, ruled that Ms Hubert must pay the £25,000 cost of Dr Sivaraman’s legal fees.
In 2013, Dr Prabha Sivaraman faced trial after a sting operation by the Daily Telegraph revealed her agreeing to perform an abortion based on the child’s gender. However, the CPS abandoned the case, deeming it unworthy of public interest.
In addition to performing sex-selective abortions, Dr Sivaraman had appeared in court on a report that she was involved in a conspiracy to use poison as a way to carry out an abortion. This fell under the Offences Against the Person Act, but was disregarded after Aisling Hubert’s case against her was dropped.
Ms Hubert, a 21-year-old Brighton resident, took up the case after the CPS let it go the first time. She also led a prosecution against Dr Palaniappan Rajmohan, who was featured in the Daily Telegraph report alongside Dr Sivaraman. The CPS intervened and also shut down this case because of a lack in public interest.
Christian Legal Centre, which campaigns on issues such as abortion and bioethics, backed Hubert’s prosecution.
Sex-selective abortions are still illegal in Britain according to the 1967 Abortion Act. To read more about “gendercide” (aborting a child based on its sex, usually a girl) and Aisling Hubert’s case, read our previous article here.
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Yet another example of persecution or, to put it another way, they “call the evil good and the good evil” – Isaiah 5 v 20.