The UK rules against human dignity.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Last month, 26-year-old Heidi Crowder lost a legal case against the British government,

in which she claimed that UK abortion laws unjustly discriminate against people with Down syndrome.

Most abortions are legal in the UK only up until 24 weeks,

but the exception is in cases of physical or mental abnormalities,

which would leave

the baby, quote, seriously handicapped. That includes children with Down syndrome, who can be terminated

right up to the moment of birth, while Heidi and 40,000 other UK citizens with Down syndrome

object, and they should. In some European nations, as many as 96% of children with Down syndrome, are aborted in the womb.

Last week, an article in the UK Telegraph asked, could this be the last generation of

Down syndrome children? As Heidi put it after the court decision, we face discrimination every

day at schools in the workplace and society. And thanks to this verdict, the judges have upheld

discrimination in the womb, too.

For all the talk of equality these days, an entire class of people are being eliminated,

Christians must defend them. I'm John Stone Street.