Embryo use debate
- Title
- Embryo use debate
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 7 Jan 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:01:43
- Description
- Leading fertility doctor, Peter Brinsden says he hopes to use eggs from aborted foetuses for fertility treatment and foetal material for research to prevent genetic diseases. He encourages public debate. Follows the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) deciding to open a consultation on whether to license the process. Female interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Peter Brinsden
- Keywords
- Medical ethics; Abortion; Artificial procreation; Public consultations; Human reproduction; Licensing; Fertility; Embryology; Foetus; HFEA; Biological research; Cell biology; Reproductive health
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LBC/IRN, "Embryo use debate". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000200031003 (Accessed 25 Apr 2025)