Deaf People & Genetics: Media Coverage

By Alison Bryan | March 11th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized |

Firstly, for those of you in the UK, tomorrow BBC Breakfast will air an interview with the RNID (7.10am) and also Tomato Lichy plus Paula Garfield (8.10am). Dr. Steve Emery will be appearing on BBC Radio 4, The Moral Maze (8.00-8.45pm). Irrespective of where you are located, you should be able to participate in debate online afterwards and we would actively encourage you to do so. We will try and make available media on this blog.

Things have taken a faster pace in the UK, and within the last two days here’s media covering this issue (in response to Clause 14(4)(9), which this campaign is about).

Radio:

BBC Radio 4: Today
BBC Radio 2: The Jeremy Vine Show
BBC Radio 4: Women’s Hour

BBC Online Discussion:

BBC Radio 4: Women’s Hour
BBC Radio 4: Today
BBC Radio 2: The Jeremy Vine Show
BBC Radio 4: The Moral Maze

UK Broadsheet Newspapers:

The Observer: This couple want a deaf child. Should we try to stop them?
The Independent: Dominic Lawson: Of course a deaf couple want a deaf child
The Telegraph: Couple who want deaf child angry at IVF ban
The Guardian: Rebecca Atkinson: My baby, right or wrong
The Times: Choosing a deaf baby is criminal
The Daily Mail: ‘Creating a deaf child IS immoral and no parent should be allowed to choose this for their child’

Newspaper / Media Blogs:

Guardian: Cathy Heffernan, The hearing’s difficulties
The Times: India Knight, “Where pro-choice feminism collides with disability rights”
Times Online: India Knight, More on ‘the right to be deaf’
BBC Ouch: Rebecca Atkinson: When disability becomes illegal: “We can screen abnormalities out before birth, but should we?”

Blogs:

Dr Steve Emery: Eugenics in UK: the debate suddenly takes off and hots up!
Grumpy Old Deafies: Genetics: BBC Radio Transcript Links & BBC lack of impartiality
All The Young Dudes: MEDIA WATCH: A Cacophonous Din of Ignorance & A Sane Voice [More Linx]
All The Young Dudes: Media Watch: A Sane Voice Amidst A Cacophony of Ignorance
All The Young Dudes: Media Watch: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It! No They Don’t!
All The Young Dudes: Media Watch: Hearing People Don’t Get It! Or Do They?
Nothing To Do With Arbroath: This couple want a deaf child. Should we try to stop them?
JivinJehoshaphat: Life Links 3/10/08
Secondhand Smoke: At the Crossroads of Eugenics and Solipsism: Engineering a Culture of Death
Dr Rant: Deafness is a disablity, fuckwit
bioethics.com: This couple want a deaf child. Should we try to stop them?
Earthquake Cove: Should parents be able to choose a deaf baby?
The Human Future: Wanted Another deaf child
The Human Future: Artificial Sperm to be Allowed for Babymaking
19th Floor: Not Worthy
Steve Shickles: This couple want a deaf child. Should we try to stop them?
Futurismic: Ethics and embryology - should deaf parents be allowed to choose a deaf child?
Curiouser and Curiouser: Selecting for deaf children seems crazy to me
Rot Watch: Deaf Babies
Peter Bracken: Is deafness a disability?
Bionic Ear: UK IVF Couple Wants Deaf Child
Mishka Zena: Eugenics Too Close To Home: Tomato Lichy, U.K. Activist
Mishka Zena: Should Deaf Parents Have a Deaf Child?
The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist: Reverse Eugenics
JoJo Moyes: A deaf child - not your right to choose
Mike Gulliver’s Blog: Response to John Humphries
Unenlightened Commentary: Designing Disability
Tory Radio: blind to common sense
Disability Nation: Controversy in the UK
Charles On …. Anything That Comes Along: Props to John Humphries on the deaf issue
Current Awareness: Couple who want deaf child angry at IVF ban - Daily Telegraph