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Petition update, 18 April 2008

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The magazine given with my Sunday paper had a very harrowing story about a young woman who might have died from cervical cancer, or at least had to undergo a hysterectomy, if these new guildelines had been in force when she was 23. The smear she had then showed severe abnormalities which would have developed into cancer if they hadn't been detected. I myself have had two semars showing pre-cancerous cells; I hate to think what might have happened to me if these had not been detected, and dealt with, in time. As the young woman in my magazine points out: there is a 99% link between cervical cancer and sex so why, when the age of consent is 16, are women denied smears until they're 25?

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Margaret King, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Kayleigh Beall
• M.A.Burnett
• Philip Glover
• Kristy Nilsson
• Hannah Mclean
• Kirsty Foston
• Fiona Wicks
• amy hewick
• Louise Turner
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