The comedian, 46, took her baby boy home, where she soon found herself flooded with sympathy from her family and friends, who all came “round to get drunk and talk about the ‘bad news’”.

However, while she acknowledges that something “important” had happened, Phillips added that “it’s not really as bad as everyone makes out” - and said that she “would have been really served by having someone around standing up and saying 'This is a good thing.'”

Her words follow the announcement that a new screening test can detect Down’s Syndrome in pregnancies with 99% accuracy.

In the documentary, Phillips explores the prospect of a world where people choose not to have children with Down’s Syndrome, meeting with key players on both sides of the emotionally charged debate, and pondering some of the ethical questions around future scientific developments, such as what we will be able to screen for next and what do our screening choices reveal about us?

And, after speaking with several mothers of babies with the condition, Phillips has determined that many women are being pressured into terminating their disabled children – with some even being booked in for abortions without their consent.

Sally Phillips on the “pressure” to abort Down's Syndrome babies: “It hurts my head”