Campaigners have been left crushed after losing their high court battle to change a law which currently allows babies with Down's syndrome to be aborted at full term.
Heidi Crowter brought the case to court after demanding a change in the outdated law which she says does not 'respect her life'.
The 26-year-old, from Coventry, is one of the three claimants who brought legal action against the Department of Health and Social Care in the hope of removing a section of the Abortion Act they believe to be an 'instance of inequality'.
In England, Wales and Scotland, there is a 24-week time limit on having an abortion.
But terminations can be allowed right up until the day if a baby's birth 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', - a clause which includes Down’s syndrome.
Following the verdict Heidi tweeted that she would not give up. She posted: "This is a very sad day, but I will keep fighting."
Scots dad Jamie McCallum, whose daughter Rosie, eight, has Down's syndrome. is chairman of the Wouldn't Change a Thing charity, told the Record the result was "disappointing".
He said: "Obviously this is not the result we had hoped for. it's very disappointing but not at all surprising. It was always going to be a David and Golliath battle, a real uphill struggle.
"Change like this is hard to achieve. it's awful, I feel for Heidi. She has put a lot of time and effort into this and she is rightly, very passionate, but I don't feel like this is the end. This is the just the end of the beginning of change."
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