Petition for ALL to have Anomaly Scans

izoomzoom

I hope that I can add this, if not, please just remove it.

Thanks to our wonderful postal lottery system, some expectant mums do not get Anomaly Scan's automatically at 20 weeks of pregnancy.

This scan is vitally important in detecting life threatening / challenges for babies, and it is terrible that some mum's are not automatically offered these.

Please can you be so kind as to add your signature to this Government Petition for all Expectant Mums to be offered an Anomaly Scan. You need to complete your details on this page, then check your email, and when you click the link in the email from 10 Downing Street you 'sign' the petition.

The petition ends on 18 April, so this is a last ditch effort to boost numbers in these dying hours.

squashy

Signed!! Great idea.

LondonDiva

I'd sign it if it was a petition for targetted high risk groups to be offered the scans.

As things stand, I'm not sure how a blanket offering would be funded within competing priorites.

Welshlassie

Have signed. A hugely important scan that really should be available to all expentant mums

stellabgh

Have signed and posted on another forum where you should get a bundle of signatures.

Jei70

Could someone change this thread title to 'Petition for ALL expectant mums to have Anomaly Scans', as I was wondering what an anomaly scan was and why I'd need it.

Thanks

keelykat

Signed, as i agree.

keely.

izoomzoom

don't know how to do that, please tell me how

pinkshoes

So is the scan to let someone know in advance if their child is going to have something wrong with it, and/or give them the chance of abortion?

Isn't that selective birth? It shouldn't be a priority to ALL expectant mothers on the NHS, except those from high risk groups i.e. old mothers, or those carrying a known genetic defect.

Perhaps offer it to all AT A COST?

I'm not sure whether you mean it should be available free to everyone on the NHS, or available to everyone but at a cost.

izoomzoom

pinkshoes wrote: »

So is the scan to let someone know in advance if their child is going to have something wrong with it, and/or give them the chance of abortion?

Isn't that selective birth? It shouldn't be a priority to ALL expectant mothers on the NHS, except those from high risk groups i.e. old mothers, or those carrying a known genetic defect.

Perhaps offer it to all AT A COST?

I'm not sure whether you mean it should be available free to everyone on the NHS, or available to everyone but at a cost.

Most women are offered a detailed scan at about 20 weeks to check that their baby is developing normally.

Ultimately this scan looks for anomalies but in addition to your suggestion of selective abortion it can pick up issues that will ensure the pregnancy can survive (ie amnionic fluid / the placenta functioning & positioning / incompetent cervix) as well issues with baby's health that may need surgery or treatment after birth, or even possibly surgery in the womb.

Spendless

pinkshoes wrote: »

So is the scan to let someone know in advance if their child is going to have something wrong with it, and/or give them the chance of abortion?

Isn't that selective birth? It shouldn't be a priority to ALL expectant mothers on the NHS, except those from high risk groups i.e. old mothers, or those carrying a known genetic defect.

Perhaps offer it to all AT A COST?

I'm not sure whether you mean it should be available free to everyone on the NHS, or available to everyone but at a cost.

My 16 week scan showed me I was pregnant with a terminally ill baby, expected to live at best a few minutes after birth. I chose to terminate. That wasn't an easy decision but 10 years on I still feel I did the right thing. I agree with women being offered the scan. I wasn't even aware till this thread that not every was.