By Eleanor Hayward Health Reporter For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:26 BST, 19 June 2019 | Updated: 01:05 BST, 20 June 2019
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Actress Sally Phillips has tearfully accused the NHS of pressuring pregnant women into having an abortion if they are carrying a baby with Down's syndrome.
Miss Phillips, whose son Olly, 14, has the genetic disorder, claimed the current system was endorsing 'a form of eugenics' by screening for Down's.
In an emotional speech, she told hundreds of world-leading obstetricians in London that 'eugenic thinking' has seeped into the NHS and people with Down's were being treated like a 'population of toads that must be managed'.
Sally Phillips, whose son Olly, 14, has Down's Syndrome, gave an emotional speech about the NHS
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