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FILM: Frozen Fertility - The Challenges of Storing Eggs, Sperm and Embryos (Part 3)

30 March 2020
By BioNews
Appeared in BioNews 1041

This is the third in a series of films documenting the recent event 'Frozen Fertility: The Challenges of Storing Eggs, Sperm and Embryos', produced by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in partnership with the Scottish Government.

The film features a presentation by Sharon Jones, a patient who has frozen her eggs and a volunteer for PET's #ExtendTheLimit campaign.

If you are interested in this topic, please consider signing and sharing PET's #ExtendTheLimit petition, calling for an extension to the 10-year storage limit for eggs frozen for non-medical reasons.

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

This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

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