(ChurchLeaders) On Oct. 17, the High Court of England and Wales agreed to hear a case brought by two women who want to change a law allowing mothers to abort their babies up to the moment of birth if the children have Down’s syndrome. Heidi Crowter, one of the women bringing the case, has Down’s syndrome herself and says the law is “deeply offensive” and discriminatory.
“The current law is unfair,” Heidi Crowter told the Sunday Telegraph. “It makes me feel like I shouldn’t exist, and that I’d be better off dead in the eyes of the law. The policy basically says that it’s normal for a baby with Down’s syndrome to be terminated right up until birth.”