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Designer BabyWednesday 10 April 2002
A lesbian US couple, both of whom are deaf, have deliberately chosen to try to have a deaf child.


Does any one have the right to choose to give birth to a child with a hearing impairment?
Baroness Emma Nicholson, MEP and Tom Shakespeare, Director of Outreach for the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute (PEALS), a project developing research and debate on the social and ethical implications of the new genetics, join Jenni to discuss the ethics of designing a deaf baby..

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