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PETBioNewsCommentFILM: #ExtendTheLimit – What Now For Egg Freezing?

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FILM: #ExtendTheLimit – What Now For Egg Freezing?

Published 25 October 2021 posted in Comment and appears in BioNews 1118

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This film documents a Progress Educational Trust event about the future of egg freezing, in light of the UK Government's announcement that it intends to extend gamete and embryo storage limits...

This film documents the Progress Educational Trust (PET) event '#ExtendTheLimit: What Now For Egg Freezing?', which discussed the future of egg freezing in light of the UK Government's announcement that it intends to extend gamete and embryo storage limits (see BioNews 1111).

Please help to keep up the pressure on the Government, by signing and sharing our online petition at www.change.org/extendthelimit

The '#ExtendTheLimit' event was sponsored by the British Fertility Society, CooperSurgical, the London Egg Bank, the Senior Infertility Nurse Group and TMRW Life Sciences.

(If you cannot see the film of the event below, click here to view it.)


Introduction
0:00:00 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust

Presentations
0:04:00 Steve Pugh
Team Leader for Assisted Conception and Embryology, Department of Health and Social Care
0:13:33 Joanne Anton
Head of Policy, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
0:27:03 Mark Wilcox
Group Medical Director, CARE Fertility
0:36:48 Professor Jason Kasraie
Chair, Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists
0:47:48 Sharon Jones
Patient who has frozen her eggs, and patient face of the #ExtendTheLimit campaign and petition
0:58:06 Baroness Ruth Deech
Crossbench Peer, House of Lords

Discussion
1:07:27 Responses to audience questions and comments

This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

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