Provide maternity leave and pay for pregnancies terminated after 20 weeks

Closed 96 signatures

What the petition asks

Currently eligibility for statutory maternity leave and pay only begins after the 24th week of pregnancy if the baby is not born alive. Maternity entitlements should be offered to parents in situations where a pregnancy is terminated after the 20-week scan for medical reasons.

My partner had to end our pregnancy with our baby boy James due to his kidneys failing. If we had continued with the pregnancy his quality of life would have been poor needing dialysis and transplant. Because this happened after the 20-week scan and before 24 weeks of pregnancy she lost all rights to maternity entitlements which could have been used as time to recover physically and mentally.

Timeline

13 Apr 2022	Petition opened for signatures
27 Oct 2022	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 96

Status Closed

Opened 13 Apr 2022

Closed 27 Oct 2022

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