United Kingdom, Feb. 13 -- Jesy Nelson's petition with Parliament, to demand all newborn babies born in the UK are tested for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), will receive a response from the UK government after it was signed more than 66,000 times.

The 34-year-old singer's eight-month-old twin daughters Ocean and Story were recently diagnosed with SMA Type 1, a rare muscle wasting disease.

England's NHS carries out a heel prick test on newborns, but SMA is not currently part of the routine blood spot test, so Jesy has launched a petition to urge the UK government to "to fund and help fast-track the process to add SMA to the NHS newborn heel-prick test".

At the time of writing, the petition, which is titled Review the evidence and fund t...