A major Parliamentary Inquiry into Abortion on the Grounds of Disability kicks off today.
Daybreak's Health Editor Dr Hilary Jones has told Daybreak that there is a very high risk to premature babies.
"There is a very high risk of a child being handicapped if it is born before 24 weeks, even with modern technology," he added.
The success of the Paralympics triggered a rethink of Britain’s abortion laws, campaigners have said.
An alliance of pro-life campaigners and religious groups launched a new push to restrict the 1967 Abortion Act.
“The recent Paralympics made this contradiction yet more glaring,” they say.
“The athletes produced such astonishing examples of courage and triumphs over disability that we now have to rethink what we mean by ‘disabled’ and ‘able’.”
In a letter to the Telegraph last September, an alliance of prolife campaigners describe the practice of aborting foetuses on physical grounds as a form of eugenics.
The letter, signed by pro-life campaigners and religious groups, argues that the current law enshrines a form of disability discrimination.
They wish to restrict the 1967 Abortion Act, to prevent doctors terminating pregnancies on the grounds of physical abnormality.
A major Parliamentary Inquiry into Abortion on the Grounds of Disability will be launched today.
Evidence will be heard which looks at whether under the current law it is right that an abortion can take place if tests indicate that the child may be disabled when born.
It will also look at how the current law works, how it's applied by medical practitioners and it's impact on disabled people.