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Fertility and Feminism (Part 5) - Falling out over frozen embryos - Baroness Ruth Deech

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Channel: Gresham College · 2009 · Education

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Has IVF increased women's control over their fertility and careers?
Freezing their eggs may give women the opportunity to be fertile for as long a timespan as men, but is this an advantage and what should the law be where two partners disagree over the future use of embryos that they stored with agreement?
What are the risks to their health and are women being exploited by clinicians and researchers?
How will women be affected by the development of artificial gametes and wombs?

This is the 5th part of the free public lecture, 'Fertility and Feminism', which was given on the 16th of February 2009.
The full lecture is available (in 10 parts) here on YouTube, or it can be downloaded (along with the other lectures by Baroness Deech, and all of our other lectures) in its complete form from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk

Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.
Baroness Ruth Deech is the Gresham Professor of Law and her series of free public lectures this year is on Family Law.

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