The ordeal of a woman carrying a Down's baby who chose abortion

This lacerating monologue (with occasional walk-ons from doctors, nurses and the subject’s two-year-old son) dramatised the experiences of Emily Steel who, at 38, found the child she was carrying had Down’s syndrome

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