Woman with Down’s syndrome loses abortion law appealon November 25, 2022 at 12:21 pm

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Campaigner Heidi Crowter says she will keep fighting and take her case to the Supreme Court.

Heidi Crowter outside the Court of Appeal

A woman with Down’s syndrome has lost her appeal over a law that allows abortion up until birth for a foetus with the condition.

Heidi Crowter, 27, from Coventry said she was “angry that the judges say my feelings do not matter”.

Judges at the Court of Appeal decided the Abortion Act did not interfere with the rights of the living disabled.

Heidi said she and her team plan to “keep fighting” and take the case to the Supreme Court and “fight there”.

Under current legislation for England, Wales and Scotland, there is a 24-week time limit for abortion, unless “there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped”, which includes Down’s syndrome.

Heidi Crowter, who has the condition, argued that the rules were discriminatory to people with Down’s. She said the legislation “doesn’t respect my life” and brought a case against the government at the High Court in July 2021.

The case was brought by Ms Crowter and Maire Lea-Wilson, 33, from west London, whose son Aidan has Down’s syndrome.

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