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Rishi Sunak declines to back MP’s Down’s syndrome abortion law change

Rishi Sunak declines to back MP’s Down’s syndrome abortion law change


As the law stands in England, Wales and Scotland, doctors can authorise an abortion if “there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped”, meaning that if a foetus is found to have Down’s syndrome, the pregnancy can be terminated after 24 weeks.

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