{"id":309191,"date":"2024-03-25T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309191"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:49:41","slug":"britains-discriminatory-abortion-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/britains-discriminatory-abortion-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s law allowing discriminatory abortions to birth could soon end"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Next month, British MPs will begin debating<\/a> whether or not to prohibit discriminatory abortions for preborn children after 24 weeks. Currently, those children \u2014 including those with Down syndrome \u2014 can be legally killed in the womb all the way until birth.<\/p>\n

MP Sir Liam Fox is leading a campaign to change the law so that discriminatory abortions must follow the country’s abortion guidelines, which allow abortion for any reason until 24 weeks. If successful, children with Down syndrome and other diagnoses will be protected from abortion after 24 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith cross-party support, I will be tabling an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill to equalise the time limit in line with our disability and equality legislation,” Fox announced.\u00a0 \u201cSurely we cannot accept in the 21st century that people with Down\u2019s syndrome are second-class citizens in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n