9 Feb 2017

Battle over Down Syndrome video steps up a legal notch

From Morning Report, 8:55 am on 9 February 2017

"Dear Future Mum" that played on European TVs to mark World Down Syndrome Day in 2014, was banned on French networks by the media regulator, who thought it might upset women who had terminated their pregnancies with Down Syndrome babies. Since then, charities and a group of people with Down Syndrome have mounted a number of appeals, but the ban has been upheld each time.