March 20, 2024
By Chas Geiger
A call for the government to back a move to outlaw the abortion after 24 weeks of foetuses diagnosed with Down's syndrome has been rejected. Currently, pregnancies involving foetuses with Down's syndrome can be terminated up to the point of birth.
Conservative MP Sir Liam Fox is leading a cross-party campaign to bring the time limit into line with foetuses without serious disabilities. Rishi Sunak said votes on abortion had always been a "matter of conscience".
Nov 25, 2022
By Hayley Clarke, BBC News
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.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-63744073
Heidi Crowter argued that the law was discriminatory and stigmatised disabled people
Matthew Weaver
Fri 25 Nov 2022
A woman with Down’s syndrome has lost a court of appeal challenge over late-stage abortions of foetuses with certain health conditions.
Heidi Crowter, who brought the case alongside Máire Lea-Wilson, whose son Aidan also has Down’s syndrome, had argued that allowing pregnancy terminations up to birth if the foetus has the condition is discriminatory and stigmatises disabled people./
Mar 9, 2022
A woman with Down's syndrome fighting against abortion laws says she is ecstatic she has won the right to appeal against a High Court ruling.
Heidi Crowter challenged legislation allowing foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth, saying it was unlawfully discriminatory.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-60669603
Heidi Crowter has argued allowing terminations up to birth if foetus has Down’s syndrome is discriminatory
Alexandra Topping and agencies – The Guardian
Thu 23 Sep 2021
A woman with Down’s syndrome who took Sajid Javid to court over the UK’s abortion law has lost her case in the high court.
Heidi Crowter, who brought the case alongside Máire Lea-Wilson, whose son Aidan has Down’s syndrome, and a child with Down’s syndrome identified only as A, had argued that allowing pregnancy terminations up to birth if the foetus has Down’s syndrome is discriminatory and stigmatises disabled people.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/23/woman-with-downs-syndrome-loses-uk-abortion-law-case
Sept 23, 2021
BBC
A woman with Down's syndrome has lost her High Court challenge over a law that allows abortion up to birth for a foetus with the condition.
Heidi Crowter, 26, from Coventry, brought the case against the government in July, saying the legislation did not respect her life.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-58662846
Lynn Murray from Edinburgh is a spokesperson for Down Syndrome charity Don’t Screen Us Out and mum of Rachel who has the condition.
By Shona Elliott
Wednesday, 7th July 2021
The campaigning parent has given her support to Heidi Crowter from Coventry who is challenging abortion law at the UK High Court.
Ms Crowter, 26, is taking legal action against the UK Government with the support of Maire Lea-Wilson, 33 whose son Aidan also has the condition.
Heidi Crowter alongside Máire Lea-Wilson and her son Aidan argue the 1967 act is discriminatory
Haroon Siddique, Legal affairs correspondent
Tue 6 Jul 2021
Allowing pregnancy terminations up to birth if the foetus has Down’s syndrome is discriminatory and stigmatises disabled people, the high court has heard.
Heidi Crowter, a 26-year-old woman with Down’s syndrome from Coventry, Máire Lea-Wilson, 33, and her son Aidan, who has Down’s syndrome, who both live in Brentford, west London are challenging Sajid Javid over the Abortion Act 1967. The act sets a 24-week time limit for abortions unless there is “substantial risk” of the child being “seriously handicapped”.
May 5, 2021
Campaigners are set to have a review of abortion law relating to Down's syndrome heard at the High Court.
Heidi Carter, of Coventry, and Máire
Lea-Wilson from Brentford, west London, are challenging the government over a
clause in the current law which allows abortion for up to birth for a foetus
with Down's syndrome.
Mrs Carter, 25, who has the condition, said the current law is "not
fair".
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-56982646
March 15, 2021
A bill which seeks to amend the law in Northern Ireland to prevent abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities, including Down's Syndrome, has been backed by a majority of MLAs.
The Severe Fetal Impairment Bill, brought by DUP MLA Paul Givan, passed its second stage by 48 votes to 12.
Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-56404024
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