UK Woman With Down’s Syndrome Loses Challenge Against Abortion Law

Heidi Crowter with her husband James Carter, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, on Nov. 25, 2022. James Manning/PA Media

An English woman and a child with Down’s syndrome on Friday lost an appeal challenging Britain’s abortion law that allows babies with the syndrome to be aborted up until birth.

Three judges at the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, saying the abortion law does not interfere with the rights of the living disabled.