In Vitro Fertilisation

(asked on 15th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 15 December (HL3301), how many foetal reductions performed following in vitro fertilisation over the past decade were performed between (1) weeks 0–5, (2) weeks 6–13, and (3) weeks 14–16.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 31st December 2014

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that in the decade preceding 31 December 2012, the Authority’s register records the following incidences of foetal reductions performed following in vitro fertilisation:

Foetal reduction in weeks 0-5

Foetal reduction in weeks 6-13

Foetal reduction in weeks 14-16

0

156

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