Pass a bill allowing anaesthetic to be used on routine female procedures

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Pass a Bill that makes it a law that requires medical practices to offer anaesthetic to women during routine or necessary procedures that are currently painful and have no alternative choice to treat common health issues or to use widely used contraceptives.

This Bill would help to create smaller disparities in the inequality within the medical field, between men and women. Women’s health is underfunded and their pain is underplayed, and this Bill would allow women’s heath to be taken more seriously and allow for necessary procedures to be done whilst being pain free as well as this it would enable more women to choose certain contraceptive options without putting themselves in a position of pain.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about when to offer anaesthesia are a matter for the NHS and individual clinicians, not the UK Government or Parliament.

Timeline

22 Mar 2023	Petition opened for signatures
27 Mar 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 27 Mar 2023

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