Submitted on Thursday 31st October 2013
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Rights for babies born alive before 24 weeks to be entitled to birth and death cetificate
Currently the law states that babies born before 24 weeks alive a not viable for birth and death certificate, this has to change. I won the right to my son certificates for he was born at 18 weeks and was alive for 20 minutes.
They are currently a loop hole in the law that these babies do not come into a group. Babies born sleeping before 24 weeks are classed as miscarriages, babies after 24 weeks are classed as stillborn. If so a baby born alive before 24 weeks deserves a birth and death certificate, even if they only survive for a short while.
After all these special babies are human, and deserve the right to be acknowledged, for they were here and lived to for no matter how short a time. They are a person to, no matter how small.
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Please see: proper birth and death certificates for all stillborn babies born between 14 weeks to 40 weeks
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