Petition Extend Embryo Destruction statutory cooling-off period by 1-year due to COVID

COVID National Restrictions and court closures have meant the statutory 1-year cooling-off period following order to Destroy Embryos against one parties’ will has not been able to be utilised.

More details

With many lawyers not accepting work, courts closed, national travel restrictions, face-face mediation has been impossible. Like many women, the law has put me in a position where I have had to fertilise my PRIVATELY harvested eggs due to the seemingly-arbitrary 10 year egg thawing law. This situation has put me at great personal risk. Less than a year after creation 5-day embryos (foetus/placenta visible) are to be destroyed. For me, and many others including those with cancer, storing embryos can be the ONLY chance to have a child.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

8 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Date closed 6 October 2021
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.