UK Court Rejects Down Syndrome Activist’s Appeal to Protect Disabled Babies

LifeSite News ^ | 11/25/22 | Jack Bingham

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'I am angry that the judges say that my feelings don't matter. That makes me feel that I am not as valuable as a person without Down's syndrome,' disabled rights campaigner Heidi Crowter said.

LONDON (LifeSiteNews) — The U.K. Court of Appeal has ruled against a woman with Down syndrome’s petition to have legislation repealed that allows unborn children suffering from disabilities to be aborted up until the moment of birth.

“The court recognises that many people with Down’s syndrome and other disabilities will be upset and offended by the fact that a diagnosis of serious disability during pregnancy is treated by the law as a justification for termination, and that they may regard it as implying that their own lives are of lesser value,” reads the recent court decision written by Lord Justice Underhill, Lady Justice Thirlwall, and Lord Justice Peter Jackson.

“But it holds that a perception that that is what the law implies is not by itself enough to give rise to an interference with Article 8 rights (to private and family life, enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights),” added the court.

Reacting to the summary judgement, the challenger of the law, 27-year-old Heidi Crowter, who herself has Down syndrome, told reporters outside the London courthouse: “I am very upset not to win again, but I will keep on fighting because we have already informed and changed hearts and minds and changed people’s opinions about the law.”

Crowter also stated that she will consider taking her case to the Supreme Court, adding that the appeal court’s decision “tells me that I am not valued and of much less value than a person without Down’s syndrome.”

“I am angry that the judges say that my feelings don’t matter. That makes me feel that I am not......

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Margarette Sanger would be proud of GGB.

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Eugenics.