When I heard that the law allows termination of pregnancy up to birth for disabled foetuses, I felt as if someone had stuck a steak knife in my heart.
I have Down Syndrome (DS), a condition caused by one extra chromosome. It means I have a learning disability. This is grounds for abortion up to birth according to the 1967 Abortion Act, Ground E (“that 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”).
