This highlights that the putative European Constitution may, if we sign up, mean that women won’t be able to get abortions if it is identified that the unborn child has a severe genetic disease like Down’s syndrome, because this may be regarded as practising eugenics and therefore prohibited under the Constitution. The abortion debate is obviously a highly emotive one. But to me, this seems wrong. Under this rule, we would force a woman to bring into the world a severely disabled child (with an obvious major impact on her life, raising questions about her ability to cope) once a foetus has been identified as likely to develop into a severely disabled child, but if before any testing has taken place, a woman decides, say, that she would be unable to cope with an unwanted child, disabled or otherwise, she can abort a foetus that would have developed into a healthy child. That seems a strange result to me. Also, I admit that my views tend towards pro–choice and I shy very much away from the idea that the law should force a woman to continue to carry a foetus which will result in her having a child she doesn’t want, for whatever reason.