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    • Legal Studies

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    • The Abortion Act 1967 permits abortion on grounds of fetal anomaly.
    • The recent Crowter case challenged this legal provision.
    • Concerns regarding disability discrimination intersect with abortion law debates.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze the Crowter case and its legal arguments.
    • To examine how disability discrimination concerns were framed within an anti-abortion context.
    • To propose necessary reforms to abortion law and ethical considerations.

    Main Methods:

    • Case law analysis (Crowter v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care).
    • Critical review of the Abortion Act 1967.
    • Ethical and legal scholarship on disability and reproductive rights.

    Main Results:

    • The Crowter case highlighted discriminatory aspects of the Abortion Act 1967.
    • Legal arguments in Crowter reframed disability concerns through an anti-abortion lens.
    • The remedies sought in Crowter were insufficient to address the harms of discrimination.

    Conclusions:

    • The Abortion Act 1967 requires reform to reflect modern ethical values and address disability discrimination.
    • A comprehensive response necessitates more radical change than proposed in Crowter.
    • Future reforms must avoid creating opposition between the rights of pregnant and disabled individuals.