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Heidi Crowter, a 27-year-old mother from Coventry, says that the current legislation discriminates against people with disabilities by allowing abortion up to birth if the unborn child has a condition such as Down syndrome.
The Court of Appeal will hear a case challenging a U.K. law that allows abortion up to birth for disability after the High Court rejected the case last year.
Under the present law in the UK, an unborn child with Down syndrome can be aborted up to 24 weeks into the pregnancy.
“My fight for justice and equality has brought us here today to change a law that makes me think I shouldn’t have been born.”
There were 3,083 abortions on the basis of disability recorded in England and Wales in 2020, 693 of them following a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome — an increase from 656 in 2019.
There were 3,183 abortions on the basis of disability recorded in England and Wales in 2019, 656 of them following a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
There were 3,183 abortions on the basis of disability recorded in England and Wales in 2019, 656 of them following a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
If the baby has a disability, including Down’s syndrome, cleft lip and club foot, abortion in the U.K. is legal up to birth.
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