Emily Graves spoke with Dr Peter Saunders, CEO of the Christian Medical Fellowship

Dr Peter Saunders: Yes, actually authorising them to take place.

Emily: Going back to the Crown Prosecution Service, what has been their position on why they haven't gone and taken action?

Dr Peter Saunders: Well the Crown Prosecution Service position on sex-selection was that there was enough evidence to prosecute but it wasn't in the public interest to do so and on the forms it was just that it's such a widespread practice that they essentially were going to let them off. What they argued was that it's a matter for the General Medical Council, not for the courts and that's what's provoked the huge reaction. Within hours of this story appearing in the Telegraph, the Health Minister Jeremy Hunt had asked the Attorney General Dominic Grieve to demand from the Crown Prosecution Service an urgent clarification as to why they'd made this decision. Then the next morning on the Radio 4 Today programme, the previous Director of Public Prosecutions before the current one heavily criticised the Crown Prosecution Service saying he didn't understand why they had made this decision. Then the Shadow Attorney General, who is Labour and a pro-choice feminist woman, Emily Thornberry, she wrote to the Crown Prosecution Service saying that they'd undermined all the work they'd done on sexual abuse and this was inexcusable: they were bypassing Parliament. Then everyone weighed in; we had 50 MPs writing to the Telegraph saying that this was completely unacceptable and then the General Medical Council itself said: Well, we're a regulatory body: it's not our job to bring these doctors to task; it's up to the courts. There's been a phenomenal amount of reaction.

Emily: Yeah, because really they're not doing the job properly.

Dr Peter Saunders: Exactly! The Director of Public Prosecutions is paid to head up the Crown Prosecution Service, which is meant to uphold the law; if he's not upholding the law that's very, very serious.

Emily: So what does the Christian Medical Fellowship want to see happen in order to tackle this issue?

Dr Peter Saunders: What we'd like to see is for the law to be properly upheld and we believe that these two doctors should be prosecuted - if there's enough evidence to do it, as the CPS has already said there is, they should go ahead and prosecute them and hear their cases in court. If they're convicted of illegal abortion then it should then at that point go to the General Medical Council to decide whether these doctors should be struck off. That's the proper procedure for it. If that doesn't happen then I'm sure there will be more reaction from Parliament, but this issue isn't going away and we haven't really seen the issue of pre-signing forms yet aired in the media but that may well be coming as well because it's the same sort of problem of the CPS not upholding the law.

Emily: How can we find out more about this issue?

Dr Peter Saunders: There's quite a lot on it on the Christian Medical Fellowship blog, which you can access through our website; there's lots in the newspapers, particularly in the Telegraph and other Christian organisations like Christian Concern and The Christian Institute have been covering it as well, but it's a story that's going to run and run and to evolve further.

As Christians we believe that God puts the governing authorities in place and he expects them to create or to uphold justice and keep order and so it's very serious when, in a democratic society, laws have been made and then they're not being properly upheld. I mean in a sense, it's sending a signal to the world that Britain is open for business as far as sex-selection abortion goes, if doctors can do it, authorise it and then not to be brought to account when it's clearly against the law.