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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 ...