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Transcript: BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Victoria Derbyshire Show
Posted: March 14th, 2008, 7:51pm UTC by Jen Dodds
Broadcast on Wednesday at 9am, this programme featured interviews with Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield, the RNID’s Jackie Ballard and David Blunkett, then a phone-in discussion, with quite a few phone calls from parents of deaf children and people who know Deaf people. Listen here. Discussions here and here. Big thanks to Claire from Team HaDo for transcribing it below! Victoria Derbyshire – Also this morning an important and for some very worrying debate – should IVF treatment screen out embryos that are likely to develop disabilities? One deaf couple doesn’t think so. They want to try for a child using IVF, but say that a proposed law would force doctors to screen out some embryos ... -
Transcript: Scottish Television’s The Five Thirty Show
Posted: March 14th, 2008, 7:30pm UTC by Jen Dodds
The British Deaf Association’s Richard Jones was interviewed on Scottish Televisions’ The Five Thirty Show on Wednesday. You can watch it here (link valid until Tuesday 18th March). Richard uses BSL but there are no subtitles - many thanks to Rachel Belk for transcribing it below: Male presenter (Stephen): Now, who would choose for their child to be anything less than perfect? Well, a Deaf couple in say they, at least, would like the option. New fertility legislation is set to make it illegal to use embryos with an abnormality like deafness during IVF treatment, but the couple argue that is discrimination. Female presenter (Debi): They believe they have the right to choose to have a ...