Row over mixed-race test-tube baby

Title

Row over mixed-race test-tube baby

Genre

Interview

TX Date

31 Dec 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:02

Description

Interview with Peter Brinsden, director of Bourn Hall Clinic in Cambridge, about a case where doctors are planning to help a Black woman give birth by using an egg from a White woman. The Black woman can’t have children of her own but wants a test-tube baby to resemble her mixed-race husband. Brinsden says racial background shouldn’t matter. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Peter Brinsden

Keywords

Medical ethics; Female infertility; In vitro fertilization; Black peoples; Cambridge; Dual heritage peoples; Multiple heritage peoples; Bourn Hall Clinic

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