{"id":279270,"date":"2022-11-08T18:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=279270"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:06:47","slug":"teen-change-uk-discriminatory-down-syndrome-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teen-change-uk-discriminatory-down-syndrome-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen fights to change UK’s discriminatory Down syndrome abortion law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An 18-year-old young woman from Windsor, England, is on a mission to change the country’s discriminatory abortion laws.\u00a0Millie Anna Prelogar, who has Down syndrome, says she was\u00a0“shocked” and “offended” when she learned that it was legal to abort children until birth in her country due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

Prelogar has been traveling the country, even meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on October 24.\u00a0“Having Down’s syndrome is no big deal,” she told him. “We can do anything we set our minds to with just a little extra help and support.”<\/p>\n

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Abortion in the United Kingdom is legal in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, or until birth, if the preborn child has been given a prenatal diagnosis of a severe disability. Sadly, a diagnosis of Down syndrome qualifies for abortion at any time, even though Down syndrome doesn’t prevent a person from living a rich, fulfilling life.<\/p>\n

Prelogar is working with other activists with an organization called Positive About Down Syndrome, as part of their “You Can’t Put Me Down Syndrome” campaign. According to Berkshire Live<\/a>, she is actively lobbying MPs to “rewrite the protocols and language used when speaking to expectant parents whose babies have been diagnosed with Down’s syndrome.” She is asking lawmakers, “Do you think I’d be better off if I had never been born?”<\/p>\n