Heidi Crowter | Screengrab: Sky News Posted on 11/26/2022 10:55:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A woman with Down syndrome has lost her appeal to stop killing babies diagnosed with this condition, cleft lip or club foot in-utero under the disability clause in abortion laws, which she said were discriminatory and stigmatized people with disabilities.
After three senior judges at the Court of Appeal decided the Abortion Act is not discriminatory to people with Down syndrome, the 27-year-old petitioner, Heidi Crowter, said she was “angry that the judges say my feelings do not matter,” the BBC reported Friday.
In England, Wales and Scotland, abortion is legal up to birth if the baby has been diagnosed as having a disability, including Down syndrome.
The judges — Lord Justice Underhill, Lady Justice Thirlwall and Lord Justice Peter Jackson –— said abortion laws were for parliament to decide, according to The Guardian.Heidi Crowter | Screengrab: Sky News
Crowter responded to the dismissal of the case by saying, “It makes me feel that I shouldn’t be here. That I should be extinct. I know that’s not true, but that’s how it makes me feel.”
The judges said, “The court recognizes that many people with Down’s syndrome and other disabilities will be upset and offended by the fact that a diagnosis of serious disability during pregnancy is treated by the law as a justification for termination, and that they may regard it as implying that their own lives are of lesser value.
“But it holds that a perception that that is what the law implies is not by itself enough to give rise to an interference with article 8 rights [to private and family life, enshrined in the European convention on human rights].”
Last September, two High Court judges had ruled that the legislation is not unlawful and that it only balances the rights of the unborn child with that of women, The Telegraph reported.
Crowter and the other petitioners had argued that the abortion law violated the European Convention on Human Rights, especially Article 2, which declares that "Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law."
Crowter, who is from Coventry, brought the case alongside Máire Lea-Wilson, whose son, Aidan, also has Down syndrome. She said her family plans to take the case to the Supreme Court. “I will not stop until I am seen as equal in society,” she was quoted as saying.
At the time of taking her case to the High Court in 2020, Crowter told The Telegraph, “The current law is unfair. It makes me feel like I shouldn’t exist, and that I’d be better off dead in the eyes of the law.”
The U.K.’s government-funded NHS uses prenatal testing to find out whether a baby has Down syndrome, said Nicola Enoch, who helps lead Positive about Down syndrome, to The Christian Post in a previous interview. Then, it frames the baby as a disaster for the mother.
“It’s the subliminal messages that we don’t even realize. The tone of the conversation,” she said. “That tone of ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘this baby is to be avoided.’”
Research conducted by Positive about Down syndrome showed that upon receiving news from the NHS that their baby had Down syndrome, 69% of pregnant women were immediately offered an abortion. If they said no, NHS officials would ask them again. And again. One woman was asked 15 times, the BBC reported earlier.
Prenatal testing is how Iceland “cured” Downs.
Two of the greatest actors of our time, Joaquin Phoenix and Stacy Keach put to death in the womb.
In England, Wales and Scotland, abortion is legal up to birth if the baby has been diagnosed as having a disability, including Down syndrome.And now I am proud all over again:
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” — Samuel Adams, speech to Second Continental Congress on August 1, 1776.
I am glad that my ancestors, neighbors of Thomas Jefferson and mentioned in his writing, chose the correct side.
Those convicted at Nuremberg want their money back.
So the UK does have a death penalty but only for babies.
Moloch will be pleased.
Cleft lip and club foot are completely correctable with surgery and have been for about a century.
Cleft lip and club foot are completely correctable with surgery and have been for about a century.
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How about the doctors treating Cleft Lip and Palate in Africa?
I see wonderful results from their work. Are we to want these kids dead?
You rarely see anyone with Down’s here in the US, either, since prenatal testing became available. Sad. People with Downs tend to have sunny dispositions and are a delight to be around. I miss them.
People have become so incredibly selfish. They would rather kill their babies than “be bothered” with imperfect ones.
And cleft palate and clubfoot? Both can be fixed with surgery (or other means, when it comes to less severe clubfoot). Strange that parents are willing to mutilate their healthy children with trans surgery, but unwilling to give birth to babies who may need corrective surgery. Sick, sick world we live in now.
I want to move to another planet.
Preferably with a breathable atmosphere and 85 degrees and sunny everyday.
Also, no sharks, snakes, or spiders.
If these “procedures” are not okay, no such “procedures” are okay. And most Freepers already know that to be the case.
You can’t knock it out of the gene pool through abortions, though, because it’s not a genetic disorder except in very rare cases.
I understand. They’ll just test perpetually.
Gattaca is becoming reality.
Gene doping has a bright future.
Iceland has eliminated Downs Syndrome. No babies are born with it.
If you find this planet, please let me know. I’d prefer there were no rats, roaches or fleas, as well, if you don’t mind. But lots of fish, shrimp, crabs (the kind you eat, not the other way round) lobsters, etc., to chow down on, cats and dogs and horses of course, lots of dolphins to watch, and birds, and most all other creatures. Including raccoons. Geckos, too. I like geckos. But not the infamous f-u geckos. They can be maddening, and they bite, too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1N2ACztZMI
Those are all fine, but you need to keep seafood on your side of the planet.
They smell.
My side will be steak, eggs, and fruit.
Remember, England has national healthcare. They don’t like to spend money on patients. I’m positive that these women were encouraged to abort. Fetuses were often referred to as “ little parasites” when I lived there.
Moloch’s gluttony is insatiable.
It seems that half of America and all the rest of the West worship him and labor to keep his furnace busy day and night.
Thus do we doom ourselves.
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