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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LBC/IRN, "Row over mixed-race test-tube baby". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0008300025005 (Accessed 09 May 2025)