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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 December 2025
Debate
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillContribution
I move on to my amendments on pregnancy, which I have to say have caused quite a lot of interest. A search of PubMed, looking for papers discussing cancer and pregnancy, produced 88,264 hits, of which 13,565 were published in or after 2020. A recent paper in 2022 on the epidemiology of cancer in pregnancy found that it occurred in approximately one in 1,000 pregnancies. Was there an intervention? No—I am really sorry to say this, but I can hear really well in this position in the Chamber, and it is quite hard to concentrate while I can hear a lot of noise around me. I will just go back slightly to make sure that my points are able to be listened to.
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