Victoria Derbyshire

A Law allows parents to terminate pregnancies where the fetus should be changed to Down's syndrome at any time up to his birth, activist.

you have written to the health Secretary to Matt Hancock to say, all should not be subject to serious disabilities, The Standard 24-week limit abortion.

Heidi Crowter, who has said the state, The Law was "deeply offensive".

The government said to stop any decision "must rest on the judgment of The Woman and her doctor".

The Down syndrome Association estimates that about 40,000 people in the UK living with the condition, which is caused by The Presence of an extra chromosome in a baby's cells.

Ms Crowter said the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, has made the current case Law , the Act in 1967, The Abortion , they feel "unloved and unwanted".

She Said , her life was as valuable as someone who does not have Down syndrome.

her mother, Liz Crowter, called The Law to be updated to recognize" all of the babies treated in the womb of the Same ".

Cheryl Bilsborrow, whose two-year-old son Hector has Down syndrome, referred to in this act as "downright discrimination".

She Said , as an older mother, she felt to see something in a test, whether your baby would be likely to have the condition.

Then she added, she felt set up "pressure to terminate", says she was offered an abortion on the entire term, Three Days before the birth to Hector.

Ms Bilsborrow said, it was given to me by a doctor: "you have to know that we cancel still, babies with Down's syndrome at 38 weeks?".

the program said: "I was speechless, shocked and disgusted. "

she described Hector has a child, was "awesome" and loved.

"All - babies - and - children - should be treated equally," she added.

The Department of Health and Social Care told the BBC, "to cancel any decision must rest on the judgment of women and their doctors.

"Only If two doctors both agree, it is a risk, a child is born with a severe deformity, an abortion take place outside of the 24-week limit may added," it is.

abortions that take place in The First 24 Weeks of pregnancy in England, Scotland and Wales.

But they must be approved by two doctors. You must agree that The Baby will pose a greater risk to the physical or Mental Health of The Woman than a termination.

abortions were illegal Act before the introduction of the 1967 abortion that allowed them to take place up to 28 weeks. This was reduced to 24 Weeks in 1990.

abortions after 24 Weeks are only allowed, if:

Since 2018, women in England were allowed to take the second of two early abortion pills at home, rather than in a clinic. This brings The Rules in line with Scotland and Wales.

abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland until October of last year,

As part of The Campaign , Ms Bilsborrow and Ms Crowther also calls for the 24-week abortion limit to be extended to all non-severe disabilities, as well as Down's syndrome.

But The Charity British pregnancy Advisory Service, said, to stop it against "any attempt that women make their own decisions about whether or not to continue a pregnancy".

"We have long believed that abortion should be not only criminal Law , but by medical laws -that women and their doctors to come to a decision about her pregnancy, without the special requirements of the statutory criteria".

He said, single women were trying to "present The Best decision for their families".

"There is no contradiction between doing what we can to ensure the rights of people with disabilities to protect, while the ability of women to make their own decisions, in the pregnancy," it added.

In some severe cases, questions such as these, the embryonic development of the brain can not be diagnosed until the third trimester.

Ms Crowther told the BBC she "understands" a 24-week-limit would prohibit, the decisions of women, but that "most of the disabilities would be, prior to 24 Weeks ".

- The average Life Expectancy for a person with Down syndrome is between 50 and 60, with a small number of people in their seventies.

Heidi , 24, and those expecting a child, and demanded, with the condition "someone to meet, learn with Down syndrome, and really, you know.

"no fear," she added. "See that there is a person behind the [extra] - chromosome. "

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