Girl challenging abortion law on grounds of disability

[User273648]

I've name changed for this. A girl is challenging the right to abortion on the grounds of disability as she has Downs. I'd be really interested in opinions.

Personally, I have a cousin who has Downs. She is low functioning (the girl challenging is clearly high functioning as she lives alone supported by carers). My aunt and uncle struggle with it. My aunt admitted once that she had cried for the first two years. They found out at birth. She obviously loves her daughter but given the choice of the same child not having Downs' Syndrome she would wish for that.

Obviously this a very sensitive topic - I'm not intending to upset anyone...just listen to other points of view.

YABU - the law should be changed so it's equal regardless of disability
YANBU - the law should stay similar to how it currently is.

www.dsrf-uk.org/downrightdiscriminationcase/

Yes and I didn't post the link because I am anti-abortion. I support our current law as it stands but it was interesting to see how abortion clinics are coping with CV19 problems.

Xenia I think they coped rather well. The Mail does like to highlight those instances where things went wrong, but things go wrong in normal day to day practice too. And of course it isn't in the Mail's interest to mention those cases where the new system worked well.