Petition Lower the age restriction on smear tests to allow women under 25 to be eligible.

- Sexual activity is legal from the age of 16, therefore so should smear tests
- Some women go for their first smear test at 25 & are having some sort of minor procedure which could have been resolved years prior.
- Our health doesn’t have a start date for complications, it can happen at any age!

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Below is reference of a case where a woman wasn’t taken seriously on her symptoms.

If your old enough to engage in sexual activity; your old enough to be taken seriously with any health symptoms & concerns you may have.

The cervical cancer injection is powerless on its own, however with the age of the smear tests being lowered I think it would be effective.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/24/this-21-year-old-mum-has-just-two-years-to-live-after-being-denied-a-smear-test-5310462/

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Date closed 9 May 2018
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