{"id":5121,"date":"2024-03-20T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/rishi-sunak-declines-to-back-mps-downs-syndrome-abortion-law-change\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T18:07:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:07:47","slug":"rishi-sunak-declines-to-back-mps-downs-syndrome-abortion-law-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/rishi-sunak-declines-to-back-mps-downs-syndrome-abortion-law-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak declines to back MP&#8217;s Down&#8217;s syndrome abortion law change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/1038F\/production\/_132974466_079c3804-4f29-4ded-8442-a0ae890d5cc6.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rishi Sunak declines to back MP&#8217;s Down&#8217;s syndrome abortion law change\" title=\"Rishi Sunak declines to back MP&#8217;s Down&#8217;s syndrome abortion law change\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the law stands in England, Wales and Scotland, doctors can authorise an abortion if &#8220;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&#8221;, meaning that if a foetus is found to have Down&#8217;s syndrome, the pregnancy can be terminated after 24 weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the law stands in England, Wales and Scotland, doctors can authorise an abortion if &#8220;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&#8221;, meaning that if a foetus is found to have Down&#8217;s syndrome, the pregnancy can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/1038F\/production\/_132974466_079c3804-4f29-4ded-8442-a0ae890d5cc6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[304,487,3586,8595,3444,1344,1030,1031,6015],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}