Heidi Crowter’s High Court Down’s case: what next?

Abortion law allowing babies with Down’s syndrome to be aborted any time up to birth is discriminatory, the High Court has heard.

Heidi Crowter, a campaigner who has Down’s syndrome, brought the case along with Brentford mother Máire Lea-Wilson who said she was pressurised to abort her son at 34 weeks. Her son Aidan, now two, has Down’s syndrome.

Discriminatory

Under the Abortion Act 1967, a woman whose baby is diagnosed in the womb with Down’s syndrome or other severe foetal abnormality can abort any time up to birth.