To their mothers, these beaming children with Down’s syndrome are the wonders of the world, bringing joy while living their lives “to the full”.
Now the two women are behind a legal challenge over laws they say give such children fewer rights.
Liz Crowter is mother to 24-year-old Heidi, who works, is getting married this summer and has named her Facebook page “Living the Dream”. Cheryl Bilsborrow, from Preston, is the mother of Hector, two, who loves music, is on the books of a modelling agency and has been described as “the cutest boy in the universe”.
They believe children like theirs are being discriminated against because they could be aborted at any time up to their births, while foetuses with no “serious disabilities” are
