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‘How can I give up?’: Meet Heidi Crowter, the woman challenging the UK’s Down syndrome abortion law

'My Christian faith is the driving force of my activism.'

Luke Coppen
Dec 13, 2022
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‘How can I give up?’: Meet Heidi Crowter, the woman challenging the UK’s Down syndrome abortion law

This has been quite a year for Heidi Crowter, the 27-year-old disability rights campaigner.

In July, she challenged a U.K. law permitting abortion up to birth on grounds of disability at the High Court in London.

When that failed, she brought the challenge to the Court of Appeal. When that too was rejected, she promised to take it to the U.K.’s Supreme Co…

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