Woman with Down's syndrome loses abortion law appeal

A pistillate with Down's syndrome has mislaid her entreaty implicit a instrumentality that allows termination up until commencement for a foetus with the condition.

Heidi Crowter, 27, from Coventry said she was "angry that the judges accidental my feelings bash not matter".

Judges astatine the Court of Appeal decided the Abortion Act did not interfere with the rights of the surviving disabled.

Heidi said she and her squad program to "keep fighting" and instrumentality the lawsuit to the Supreme Court and "fight there".

Under existent authorities for England, Wales and Scotland, determination is simply a 24-week clip bounds for abortion, unless "there is simply a important hazard that if the kid were calved it would endure from specified carnal oregon intelligence abnormalities arsenic to beryllium earnestly handicapped", which includes Down's syndrome.

Heidi Crowter, who has the condition, argued that the rules were discriminatory to radical with Down's. She said the authorities "doesn't respect my life" and brought a lawsuit against the authorities astatine the High Court successful July 2021.

The lawsuit was brought by Ms Crowter and Maire Lea-Wilson, 33, from westbound London, whose lad Aidan has Down's syndrome.