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Does everyone and, more important, should everyone have the right to give birth to and raise children? Should there be a national parenting policy that includes mandatory parenthood training and screening to determine the suitability of all prospective parents, not just adoptive or foster parents? Should contraception ever be made compulsory to prevent some people from procreating? Is there a meaningful difference between being a mother or father...
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Advances in fertility or reproductive science have already had an enormous impact on society. Test tube babies, IVF, and frozen embryos have made infertility less of an obstacle for some, but others worry where this technology can lead. This film explores the possibilities, including the creation of the dream child with the best traits of both parents. Genetic diseases and disorders can be a thing of the past, but can we be trusted to stop there?
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"Surely parents owe it to their children to give them the best life they can? Increasingly we are able to reduce the number of babies born with disabilities and disorders. But there is a powerful new challenge to conventional thinking about the desirability of doing so: it comes from those who actually have these conditions. They call into question the very definition of disability; how do we justify trying to avoid bringing people like them into...
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