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PETBioNewsCommentFILM: More Trouble in Store? The Two-Year Extension to Embryo and Gamete Storage Limits

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FILM: More Trouble in Store? The Two-Year Extension to Embryo and Gamete Storage Limits

Published 27 July 2020 posted in Comment and appears in BioNews 1057

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This film documents a Progress Educational Trust event about a new law extending egg, sperm and embryo storage limits, in order to address problems caused by the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic...

This film documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'More Trouble in Store? The Two-Year Extension to Embryo and Gamete Storage Limits'.

If you are interested in this topic, please consider signing and sharing PET's #ExtendTheLimit petition, calling for a permanent extension to the UK storage limit for eggs frozen for non-medical reasons.

(If you cannot see the 'More Trouble in Store?' film below, click here to view it.)


Introduction
00:00 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust

Presentation
03:45 James Lawford Davies
Partner, Hill Dickinson

Discussion
21:48 Responses to audience questions and comments

Close
51:18 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust

This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

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