UK demonstration planned as campaigners await Down’s syndrome abortion ruling

People with Down’s syndrome, their families and other disabled supporters will gather for a demonstration outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice this Thursday.

They will be there in support of Heidi Crowter and Máire Lea-Wilson’s landmark case against the UK Government over the current discriminatory abortion law that allows abortion up to birth for Down’s syndrome.

Following the release of the judgement at 10:30am, Heidi Crowter and Máire Lea-Wilson will both make speeches and behind them a crowd of people with Down’s syndrome and their supporters will be standing with banners and posters with messaging such as ‘Don’t Screen Us Out’, ‘Love doesn’t count chromosomes’, and ‘My child is not a risk’.