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J Med Ethics 42:738-741 doi:10.1136/medethics-2016-103704
  • Reproductive ethics
  • Paper

‘Social’ egg freezing and the UK's statutory storage time limits

  1. Emily Jackson
  1. Correspondence to Professor Emily Jackson, Department of Law, LSE, London WC2A 2AE, UK; e.jackson{at}lse.ac.uk
  • Received 25 May 2016
  • Revised 19 July 2016
  • Accepted 3 August 2016
  • Published Online First 23 August 2016

Abstract

This article argues that the statutory time limits upon the storage of gametes have unintended and perhaps even perverse consequences for women freezing their eggs as insurance against age-related fertility decline. They work against good clinical practice and potentially represent an interference with a woman's right to respect for her family life, which is neither necessary nor proportionate. My claim will be that the statutory time limit, and the options for extension, are no longer fit for purpose.

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  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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