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Transcript: CBC Radio’s As It Happens
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 2:20pm UTC by Jen Dodds
The issue has now reached Canada - CBC Radio interviewed Tomato Lichy for the As It Happens programme, which was broadcast last night. Listen here (for a limited time). Many thanks to Mary Therese Durr for transcribing it below: Title: A deaf couple in England wants a second deaf child but the government won’t hear of it. Introduction: Tomato Lichy and his partner, Paula Garfield, are trying for another baby, but trying for this baby has put them in an unusual fight. Both parents were born with congenital deafness. Their first child deaf is deaf and now they want their second child to be deaf as well. Which is a possibility, thanks to modern genetic testing and ... -
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 ... -
Transcript: BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 12:17pm UTC by Jen Dodds
Click here to read BBC Radio 4’s own transcript of yesterday’s broadcast of The Moral Maze, starring Dr Steve Emery. Great to see an internal transcript at last! Discussion here. ... -
Transcript: BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show, Deaf Babies
Posted: March 10th, 2008, 8:08pm UTC by Jen Dodds
BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show aired a programme on as a follow up to BBC Radio 4 Today this morning (see this blog post). You can listen to this programme here, and a full transcript of the programme has kindly been provided by Claire, of Team Hado. Shame on the BBC for not providing immediate access! Transcript begins: Jeremy Vine (JV) - We’ll talk in a moment about deaf campaigners asking for the right to choose deaf children and why they say being deaf is not a disability….. JV - Should deaf parents be allowed to choose to have a deaf child over one that has all its senses intact? This is the controversial debate ... -
Transcript: The Right To be Deaf (BBC Radio Four)
Posted: March 10th, 2008, 12:05pm UTC by Jen Dodds
From today’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme (audio recording may not be available for readers accessing this page later on). Discussion here. [text on web page] The Right to be Deaf A new bill going through Parliament could mean embryos used in IVF treatment would have to be screened out if the child would be born deaf. [interview transcribed by Claire from Team HaDo] John Humphrys (JH) – You would think that if deaf people had children they would hope that their hearing would be normal. You might be wrong. There is an important, and to many people, deeply disturbing, debate at the moment over whether they should be able to choose, effectively whether their ... -
A question for the 12th April march organisers…
Posted: February 15th, 2008, 10:01am UTC by Jen Dodds
ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Hello! I’m very happy to see British Deaf people finally taking action and organising a march in London on April 12th. This is great! However, I’d like to clarify what exactly the aim of this march is, please? You say you are marching against the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, but what I would like to know is … are you against the WHOLE bill or just part of it?I ask this because the Bill is very broad, and has some good things in it too. For example, it covers gay people’s parenting rights. Like, it says that lesbians can bring up children on their own without men involved. It also says that non-birth mothers in ... -
stop eugenics II - who decides?
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 4:26pm UTC by Jen Dodds
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