{"id":314834,"date":"2024-07-02T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=314834"},"modified":"2024-07-02T20:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:11:43","slug":"abortion-down-syndrome-politician-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-down-syndrome-politician-uncomfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion UK politician is ‘uncomfortable’ with Down syndrome abortions to birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A politician from the United Kingdom who supports abortion has expressed that he is uncomfortable with the country’s law that allows abortion for preborn children with Down syndrome \u2014 all the way to birth.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview<\/a> with Evangelical Times, Elliot Colburn said it does not “sit right with him” that parents are expected to kill their preborn children after a Down syndrome diagnosis, expressing his horror when he had parents tell him they were “thrust a leaflet on abortion without any discussion or offer of support when their baby had been found to have Down syndrome.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not sit right with me that termination is not only offered, but almost expected, in many cases, as per the stories some mums shared with me,\u201d he said. Per The Christian Institute, around 90 percent<\/a> of all children in the UK who receive this diagnosis in the womb are aborted; the latest figures show that 760 with Down syndrome were aborted in 2022.<\/p>\n