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LONDON, England (LifeSiteNews) – A young woman with Down Syndrome says she will take her case to the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal after the High Court rejected her challenge to the current abortion law.
The British Abortion Act 1967 permits babies with Down Syndrome to be aborted until birth.
The High Court rejected 26-year-old Down Syndrome activist Heidi Crowter’s case against the Department of Health and Social Care earlier today.
Crowter was joined in the legal challenge by Máire Lea-Wilson, whose two-year-old son also has the chromosomal condition.
Heidi Crowter is a self-advocate who has campaigned for the last five years for equal treatment for those with Down Syndrome in all areas of life. She was married last summer to James Carter, who also has Down Syndrome. Máire Lea-Wilson, a 33-year-old accountant, was placed under pressure to have an abortion when a 34-week scan revealed her son had Down Syndrome.
Currently, the British Abortion Act 1967 prohibits abortion after 24 weeks unless “there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical
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