NHS categorically dismisses claims it was looking into proposals for 'baby organ harvesting'

Claims that the NHS were looking at proposals to harvest babies organs by encouraging mums to carry foetuses with fatal defects to term have been categorically dismissed by the health service.

The NHS Blood and Transplant unit said "under no circumstances" would members of its team put pressure on a woman to continue with a pregnancy just so that it could use the baby for organ donation.

It comes after The Mail newspaper made claims that women who discovered early in pregnancy that their babies may not survive would be given advice on going ahead with the birth in future so the NHS could harvest the organs.

The NHS assured the public they would never push for a mother to continue her pregnancy if she had a baby with a non-survivable condition.