Rejected petition Abortion for incurable crippling genetic diseases should only be used to save mother’s life; NOT for convenience, social or psychological conditions

More details

Screening for genetic diseases before implanting IVF embryos for genetic diseases OR during early stages of pregnancy in order to weed out carriers of crippling genetic diseases is an ethical cause. Unlike not implanting IVF embryos, abortion is a serious affair. Abortion should only be performed for identified incurable crippling genetic diseases of embryos or to save mothers’ lives; not for convenience, social circumstances or innocuous psychological conditions of mothers. Abortion on embryos should not be done for innocuous curable characteristics like the colour of hair or for clef lips. Human embryos less than 13 weeks old are a group of cells without consciousness. Therefore abortion of embryos with incurable crippling genetic diseases should preferably be done for embryos less than 13 weeks old. However due to the series tests needed to support the medical grounds for abortion, it may not always be possible for an abortion to be much less than 24 weeks of pregnancy.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 26 August 2011
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.