Your life is precious, and are we all eugenicists now?
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In so-called 'healthy' pregnancies, abortion is legal only up to 24 weeks. But if the unborn child is thought to be at 'substantial risk of having a disability', then termination is legal right up to the moment of natural birth at 40 weeks. And the NHS has a vast screening programme designed to discover such disabilities. It is principally designed to detect those with Down's syndrome, far and away the commonest form of chromosomal abnormality (and not a disease, however much this is ignorantly repeated).
Your life is precious, and are we all eugenicists now?
Your life is precious, and are we all…
Your life is precious, and are we all eugenicists now?
In so-called 'healthy' pregnancies, abortion is legal only up to 24 weeks. But if the unborn child is thought to be at 'substantial risk of having a disability', then termination is legal right up to the moment of natural birth at 40 weeks. And the NHS has a vast screening programme designed to discover such disabilities. It is principally designed to detect those with Down's syndrome, far and away the commonest form of chromosomal abnormality (and not a disease, however much this is ignorantly repeated).