22 MKs appeal to the USSR to intervene for a complete renewal of the cessation of fertility treatment due to the corona • "The partial return is in unreasonable criteria"

Coalition for Fertility Therapy: 22 Knesset Members of All Factions Called to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Asked - "Your Intervention to Renew Fertility Therapy, Discontinued Due to Corona Virus Completely."

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Currently, IVF treatments in hospitals have been resumed, but only for women over the age of 39 and without the return of fetuses (except in limited cases), and for women over the age of 35, but without IVF treatments but only in community clinics. Knesset members are now seeking to restore the treatments to some 50,000 women who are in the process.

They claim the partial return of the treatments is "in unreasonable criteria" that make it difficult for them to return and be treated. "There is a real concern that as a result of the situation, many women will lose their chances to become mothers and bring life into the world."

The petition was initiated by MK Kati Sheetrit together with Gila Gamaliel, Miri Regev, Tzipi Hutubelli, Yifat Shasha-Biton and Knesset Member Karin Elhahr, Orna Barbivai, Miki Haimovich, May Golan, Keren Barak, Sharan Hashalek, Iman Khatib Yassin, Omar Yankelevich , Meirav Cohen, Orly Levi-Abaxis, Julia Malinowski, Sundos Saleh, Eti Chava Atia, Tali Pluskov, Orly Froman, Michal Song, Ayelet Shaked and Pnina Tamano Shat.

"Being a parent is a natural right for everyone. Due to the Corona virus's instructions, women have been forced to stop treatment. Most of them have no children or have at most one child and knowing that taking them to the world is a hard hit for them. In addition, the process It is very expensive and any treatment that is interrupted can cost women tens of thousands of shekels, "the Knesset members wrote.

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We also note that "so far the corona's injury to the fetus or the pregnancy process has not been proven and there is no recommendation not to become naturally pregnant. In addition, hospital wards are available and able to absorb women. As a result, we believe these women should be allowed to continue their treatments. Women are missing out on the opportunity to hug their own child. Every day that passes is critical. " 

MK Kati Sheetrit said: "Our appeal to the Prime Minister is first and foremost a valuable statement - the State of Israel does not ease its efforts to become a mother. I have been following this issue closely since the treatments were discontinued, and I feel the pain of the women and their surroundings every day. Every day that passes is critical for them, so it is hoped that the Ministry of Health will come back and renew the treatments fully. We have found that the prime minister is very attentive to the plight of the public and I have no doubt that he will help this time as well. "

Chairman of the Women's Forum for Fertility Promotion in Israel, Deganit Yiftach: "We are stepping up the fight against the Ministry of Health, which has taken unimaginable authority, to delay the return of most of our women to the fertilization process. The Ministry of Health responded with arrogance and opacity, while discriminating and severely violating human dignity and liberty and patient rights law, to our petition to the High Court. We are confident that there are judges in Jerusalem. We hope that the US will answer dozens of Knesset and service companies Well, give us back our stolen rights. Either way we fight for the right of everyone and then to fulfill the basic need - the desire to be a mother. "