A Curious Case in the High Court.

The decision given against young Heidi Crowther, a person with Downs Syndrome, in the High Court was a strange one.    The judges, no doubt afraid of a backlash against them, claimed they could only act in accordance with the law, and yet were ready to give opinions which were outside the law.    In my reading of the case on a BBC website there was a paragraph which said 'The Government maintained there was no evidence the law discriminated against Downs'.   Just read that again 'There is no evidence the law discriminates against Downs'.   Well we must admit the obvious, the law does not discriminate against Downs, it also aborts babies with other conditions.   You must excuse me using the word baby instead of foetus for I have seen too many scans on pregnant women which show me there is little difference between a baby in the womb and a baby in a pram.   I am not into mental gymnastics.    But maybe I am being harsh for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service told the BBC there is a relatively small number of abortions every year taking place after 24 weeks.   So we can rest easy in our beds since what does it really matter if it is only one or two.   Well I think the death of any human being matters.     But of course I must apologise again, I think that any baby who looks like a human being must be a human being.   But when Catholics of Good Standing like Joe Biden are Hell Bent on having abortions up to birth then I must be wrong, the Church must be wrong, and Christianity that has been following Jesus for 2,000 years, must certainly have it wrong.

Having heard from mothers that they welcomed their Downs babies, the Judges then commented "There is clear evidence that not every family would re-act the same way and the ability to provide for a Downs Child would 'very significantly'   {the sentence was not completed)

When I worked with Downs people I was warned that they were real persons and I should never call them handicapped.  They were humans with human rights.    And yet so far the media has failed to mention this.   That the law allowing Downs and others to be killed up to birth was based on this out of date term.   The law talks about 'handicapped people' being aborted until birth.    It is completely out of date, and this is what the judges should have ruled on.   And this is what the media should be reporting.

 

 

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