Crohn's woman loses frozen eggs bid in UK

A Crohn’s disease sufferer has lost a High Court challenge against what she claims is an “unlawful” decision to refuse her funding for her eggs to be frozen before she undergoes chemotherapy.

Crohn's woman loses frozen eggs bid in UK

A Crohn’s disease sufferer has lost a High Court challenge against what she claims is an “unlawful” decision to refuse her funding for her eggs to be frozen before she undergoes chemotherapy.

Mr Justice Jay, sitting in London, dismissed a judicial review action brought by Elizabeth Rose, 25, from Margate, Kent, who fears that the “imminent” bone marrow transplantation and chemotherapy treatment she faces will render her infertile.

Clinicians at King’s College Hospital in south east London applied on her behalf for funding so her eggs could be frozen before she undergoes the chemotherapy.

But Miss Rose took legal action over a “continuing refusal” by Thanet Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to provide NHS-funded fertility preservation treatment.

The Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate believes she is the victim of a “postcode lottery” as the treatment is available to single women in other parts of the country.

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