Deaf People & Genetics: Media Coverage, Part 2

By Alison Bryan | March 17th, 2008 | Posted in Media Campaign |

Following this post, here’s the second summary of coverage on this subject (from the past week):

Radio:

BBC Radio 5 Live: The Victoria Derbyshire Show, Transcript here, Discussion here and here
BBC Radio 4: The Moral Maze, transcript and online discussion
BBC World Service: Have Your Say, transcript, discussion, and transcript comment
BBC Radio 4: Today, Lord Winston & Professor Jones, transcript

Television:

BBC Breakfast: Interview with Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield
BBC Breakfast: Interview with Jackie Ballard (link to follow)
Scottish Television: The Five Thirty Show, Transcript here
BBC News: Catholic pressure on fertility bill
ABC News: No to ‘Deaf’ Embryos

Newspapers:

The Guardian: Letter from Jackie Scully: Hearing Beethoven
The Herald: Emotional squeamishness over deaf baby
The Times: Deafness and disability: A wonderful response
Catholic News Agency: Deaf couple wants to use genetic selection to have a deaf child
The Peninsula (Qatar): Deliberately choosing a deaf child is criminal
The Herald: Let parents go ahead and have a deaf child
The Sun: David Blunkett - Wanting a deaf child is daft

Blogs:

Dr Steve Emery: The wise young guy and the zombies
Deaf DC Blog: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Motherhood, Guns, and Open Futures
bioethics.com: Choosing a Deaf Baby is Criminal
Mike Gulliver’s Blog: A plea to the press on Clause 14 (HFAE Bill)
BioEdge: British activists call for creation of deaf embryos
Paul Humphreys’s Weblog: Computus - the way we decide when Easter is..
Geek of All Trades: You’re deaf, not retarded.
At the Rim: The BBC Interview
The Coterie of the Zombies: The Right To Remain Silent
The Coterie of the Zombies: spunk whores get their come-uppance
The Gray Monk: The right to choose?
Ye Goblyn Queenne: Speak up please. You are deaf. We can’t hear you.
OlyBlog: Screening Embryos for Blindness / Deafness
Liberal Burblings: Deaf couple and IVF - angels on the head of a pin?
Media Dis&Dat: Controversial new British law challenged by deaf community
Bede’s Journal: Are Deaf People Disabled?
As in the days of Noah: CULTURE of DEATH:’Creating a deaf child IS immoral and no parent should be allowed to choose this for their child’
123 Creation: Props to John Humphries on the deaf issue
This side of the house: Deaf parents chosing deaf babies
Remembering the Ability in Disability: Are they deaf? or just DisAbled?
John Smeaton, SPUC Director: The moral maze created by IVF
The Deaf Blog: The Right to be Deaf
Erasmus28: Radio 4 - The Moral Maze - IVF
Centre Right: The disgraceful desire to inflict a disability on babies
Catholic News 24/7: Deaf couple wants to use genetic selection to have a deaf child
Vixen’s Diary: The Right to be Deaf?
Carlos Online: Deafness, Disability and IVF
Daily Grind: Choosing Child’s Genetic Makeup
Parent Dish: Should UK couple be allowed to choose a deaf embryo?
Mike Gulliver’s Blog: The lie of ‘of course deaf is wrong’
Berke Outspoken: Deaf IVF Embryos, Natural Deaf Babies, and Choices
Our Future Thoughts: Having a Deaf Child - On Purpose
Rob’s Blog Space: Is deafness a Dissability?
All The Young Dudes: Media Watch: Tidish Boom!
Mulier Fortis: Designer Babies …?
iblog so you don’t have to: Should deaf parents be able to choose deaf children?
disability: Should deaf parents be able to choose deaf children?
spEak You’re bRanes: Gingervitis
All The Young Dudes: Transcript: Out In The Middle Of Whoop, Whoop’s World Service, 6pm. March 12th 2008
Freemania: Deafness and the availability of options
Alejandro: Deafness is a Disablitiy
Liberal Conspiracy: Are they deaf? Or just DisAbled?
Defying Clarity: Deaf British Babies: Morally Repugnant?
Butterfly, Like Me…Deaf’s v/blog: Choosing a Deaf baby is criminal” wrote Daniel Finkelstein!!
All The Young Dudes: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: A Message From G.O.D
The Human Future: An Embryonic Disaster in the U.K.

Forums:

Games Radar: “Is it wrong to try and have a deaf child?”
Aspices for Freedom: Doctors want to screen out embryos with autism
Witte zwanen, zwarte zwanen: Playing God vs. de loterij
deafchurch.co.uk: New IVF bill causes moral debate

Please let us know in the comment box, if you know of any more.