CI News: 24 March 2017

In the news this week: SNP veteran Jim Sillars calls for Scotland’s controversial Named Person scheme to be axed, a medical professor claims sex selective abortion is good for mother and child, and people across the globe mark World Down’s Syndrome Day.

Featured stories

• SNP veteran: ‘Abandon Named Person’
  
• Sex selective abortion: ‘Good for mother and child’, claims BMA ethics member
  
• ‘Supporters of traditional marriage are being treated as bigots’, says Supreme Court judge
  
• Down’s Syndrome Day 2017: Challenging perceptions